NEW ENGLAND
Simsbury Bank and Trust Co. Inc. in Connecticut said Martin J. Geitz will take over Oct. 4 from its founding president and chief executive officer, Barry R. Loucks.
Mr. Loucks will help with the transition and retire from the 9-year-old bank, which has three branches and $197 million of assets, by February.
Until last year Mr. Geitz was the president of Cigna Bank and Trust Co., which he had helped to found in 2000. (This spring it was renamed Prudential Bank and Trust when Prudential Financial Inc. bought Cigna Corp.'s retirement and investment services businesses.) Earlier a long career at Fleet included the presidency of Fleet Development Ventures LLC and Fleet Community Development Corp.
In the past year, as a vice president of the savings products division at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., Mr. Geitz has given investment advice to people nearing retirement.
MIDWESTCitizens Banking Corp. of Flint, Mich., said that Richard J. Mitsdarfer, its general auditor and that of its Citizens Bank since 1984, will retire Oct. 1.
Tony Hawking will fill in until a successor is hired, the company said. Mr. Hawking, who joined the company in 2002, is its director of strategy and planning.
Citizens Banking, which also owns F&M Bank Wisconsin and F&M Bank Iowa, has $7.7 billion of assets.
Monarch Community Bancorp Inc. of Coldwater, Mich., has promoted Don Denney to president and chief executive officer of the company and its $290 million-asset Monarch Community Bank.
He will continue to manage the bank's commercial lending department.
Before joining the bank in April, Mr. Denney had been the president and the chief lending officer of Farmers Citizen Bank of Bucyrus, Ohio, for eight years.
Bill Kurtz, who had been the acting CEO since John Schroll resigned this month, will remain the company's chief financial officer and a senior vice president.
SOUTHEASTMain Street Banks Inc. of Atlanta said Edward C. Milligan, its chairman and chief executive officer, will hand off the CEO job Jan. 1 to Samuel B. Hay 3d, the CEO of its $2.1 billion-asset Main Street Bank.
Mr. Hay was already the holding company's president and chief operating officer. He will drop the latter title.
WESTMid-State Bank and Trust of Arroyo Grande, Calif., has hired Don Hartmann as its commercial banking manager for Oxnard, Port Hueneme, and Camarillo.
He will report to Steve Harding, a senior vice president and the director of commercial banking at the $2.2 billion-asset unit of Mid-State Bancshares.
Mr. Hartmann was the president and the chief executive officer of Millennium Bank of Edwards, Colo., which he helped found in 2001. He has 25 years of banking experience.
Arrowhead Community Bank, a Glendale, Ariz., unit of Capitol Bancorp Ltd. of Lansing, Mich., has hired Amy Lou Blunt as its chief credit officer and an executive vice president.
Ms. Blunt was the loan operations manager and a commercial lender at another Capitol unit, Camelback Community Bank of Phoenix.
Earlier in her 20-year banking career, she had been a vice president and the manager of the Southwest regional loan portfolio and the technology market at Silicon Valley Bank.
She began her career at First Interstate Bank of Arizona, which Wells Fargo & Co. bought in 1996.
Arrowhead has $68 million of assets.
