MIDDLE ATLANTIC
S&T Bancorp Inc. of Indiana, Pa., has named James C. Miller, the chief executive of the company and its $3 billion-asset S&T Bank, their chairman too.
He succeeded Robert D. Duggan, who had been their chairman from 1993 until his death on July 29.
Mr. Miller relinquished the presidency of the company and the bank to Todd Brice, who had been an executive vice president of commercial lending. David Antolik, who was a senior vice president of commercial lending, succeeded Mr. Brice.
David L. Krieger and Edward C. Hauck were promoted from executive to senior executive vice president. Mr. Krieger is the head of commercial lending; and Mr. Hauck is the head of retail operations.
Provident Bank, a $1.6 billion-asset thrift in Montebello, N.Y., has hired Maureen C. Solero as its director of human resources.
She has aslo also been named a vice president at the Provident Bancorp Inc. unit.
Until last year Ms. Solero had managed Deutsche Bank's human resources procurement department, which procures HR products and services for the bank's employees worldwide. Before that she had managed human resources and business operations at Bankers Trust Co., which Deutsche Bank AG bought in 1999.
For the past several months Ms. Solero has been a consultant to financial institutions on human resources outsourcing.
Waypoint Financial Corp. of Harrisburg, Pa., has promoted the chief banking officer of its Waypoint Bank in anticipation of its sale to Sovereign Bancorp and the subsequent departure of its top executive.
Andrew S. Samuel succeeded David E. Zuern as the bank's president and chief operating officer. Mr. Zuern remains its chairman and chief executive and the president and CEO of the holding company.
When Sovereign buys Waypoint (as it is expected to do by January), Mr. Samuel would become the president and CEO of Sovereign's new central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland division. Mr. Zuern is to stay on through June as the division's chairman.
Partners Trust Financial Group Inc. of Utica, N.Y., has named executive vice president Steven A. Covert, the chief financial officer of the company and its $3.7 billion-asset thrift, their chief operating officer too.
Mr. Covert joined the mutual Savings Bank of Utica in 2000; in 2002 it converted to stock form and he became the CFO of the new holding company for the renamed SBU Bank.
Last month the company bought BSB Bancorp Inc., merged BSB Bank and Trust into SBU, and renamed the latter Partners Trust Bank.
Unity Bancorp Inc. of Clinton, N.J., has made James A. Hughes, its president and that of its $491 million-asset Unity Bank, their chief executive as well. He succeeded David D. Dallas, who remains the chairman of both.
Mr. Dallas had been the holding company's interim CEO since November, when Anthony J. Feraro, then its CEO and president, took a leave of absence while bank auditors reviewed his applications for reimbursement of expenses.
Mr. Feraro quit the next month, and Mr. Hughes, then chief financial officer, succeeded him as president.
The holding company has also named Peter Maricondo to its board. He is the corporate controller and a vice president at NUI Corp., a utilities company in Bedminster, N.J.
WESTFirst State Bank of California in Granada Hills, a $215 million-asset unit of Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc., has named Richard Patterson to its board.
Mr. Patterson is a senior partner of Owen, Patterson & Owen, a Valencia law firm.
Oak Valley Community Bank of Oakdale, Calif., has promoted Chris Courtney to president.
He was the chief operating officer and chief credit officer at the $278 million-asset bank, which he had joined in 1996 as a commercial loan officer.
As president he succeeded Ronald C. Martin, who remains the chief executive officer.
West Coast Bank of Lake Oswego, Ore., has hired Bob Dickie as the manager of its commercial real estate division and a senior vice president.
He succeeded Don Johnson, who has retired from the $1.7 billion-asset unit of West Coast Bancorp.
Mr. Dickie was a manager and a senior vice president in the commercial real estate division for U.S. Bank's Northwest region.
