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Marquette Financial Cos. of Minneapolis has hired Paula Phillippe as its senior vice president of human resources and communications.
Ms. Phillippe was the chief administration officer and an executive vice president at RBC Dain Rauscher Inc., a Minneapolis unit of Royal Bank of Canada. She has 17 years of experience in human resources, training, communications, and community affairs.
Marquette, which is owned by the Pohlad family of Minneapolis, owns the $595 million-asset Meridian Bank in Wickenburg, Ariz., and several specialty finance units that do business nationwide.
NEW ENGLANDBoston Private Financial Holdings Inc. has hired Joseph H. Cromarty as its president for the eastern United States and a member of its executive management committee,
He will oversee include the $1.7 billion-asset Boston Private Bank and Trust Co. and the investment management firms Rinet Co. LLC, Boston Private Value Investors, Westfield Capital Management Co., and Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co. LLC.
Mr. Cromarty was the president of State Street Global Alliance LLC, a joint venture of State Street Corp. and the Dutch pension fund company ABP that invests in other asset management firms. Before that he had been State Street Global Alliance's managing director of trust and investments. Earlier he had been the director of marketing and a senior vice president at NatWest Investment Management Inc.
Boston Private Bank and Trust Co. also announced that it had hired Robert H. Rudnick as a vice president in its commercial banking group. He came from the $1 billion-asset Capital Crossing Bank, where he was a vice president and a manager of performing and nonperforming loans.
SOUTHEASTRowan Savings Bank of China Grove, N.C., has hired William "Skip" Wood as its president.
He was a senior vice president at AmSouth Bank and the eastern Tennessee and northern Georgia manager of its consumer banking division. Earlier he had worked for 15 years in various management positions at First Union Bank (now Wachovia Bank).
At Rowan he succeeded Bruce D. Jones, who left last month to become a regional president at Capitol Bancorp Ltd. of Lansing, Mich.
Mr. Jones was also Rowan's chief executive officer. Senior vice president Janet D. Abernethy, its chief lending officer, assumed those responsibilities until Mr. Wood's arrival, but Mr. Jones has them now, a spokeswoman said.
Rowan is a $150 million-asset unit of FNB Corp. of Asheboro, N.C., which also owns the $650 million-asset First National Bank and Trust Co. there.
WESTDiablo Valley Bank of Danville, Calif., whose chairman and chief executive came from a Greater Bay Bancorp unit, has hired a Greater Bay executive as chief financial officer and an executive vice president.
He is Randy Greenfield, who was Greater Bay's vice president of finance and accounting. He had joined the Palo Alto company in 1999 when it bought Bay Bank of Commerce, whose CFO he had been.
Jack Hounslow is Diablo Valley's chairman, and Jim Mayer, its president and CEO. They had the same jobs at Mt. Diablo National Bank, which Greater Bay bought in 2000. (Mr. Hounslow was Mt. Diablo's founding chairman.)
They left in October 2002 to found Diablo Valley, which opened for business late last year and now has $90 million of assets. Mt. Diablo National was merged in February into Greater Bay Bank.
