SOUTHEAST
Monarch Bank of Chesapeake, Va., has hired Mary J. Anderson as its human resource manager and a vice president.
Ms. Anderson was a manager and a vice president at SouthTrust Bank, where she oversaw the human resources functions of 300 employees.
Before that she had been the human resources manager at Cenit Bank, which SouthTrust Corp. bought in 2001.
WESTFar East National Bank, a Los Angeles unit of Sinopac Holdings of Taipei, has hired Robert W. Sweeney as its president and a director.
He succeeded Robert B. Oehler, who was named a vice chairman and will continue to support the $1.7 billion-asset bank's external affairs, which include government and board relationships.
Mr. Sweeney was the managing director for Southeast Asia and Japan for the global electronic solutions division of GE Commercial Equipment Financing, itself a division of GE Commercial Finance.
He joined the equipment financing division in 1997 as a regional sales manager of foreign direct investment. In 2002 he was promoted to integration manager and was assigned to help with General Electric Co.'s purchase of certain leasing businesses from Comdisco Inc.
Provident Savings Bank of Riverside, Calif., has hired Milton Knox as its senior vice president of retail banking.
Mr. Knox came to the $1.3 billion-asset bank from Hawthorne Savings and Loan Association, where he had the same job and title for 10 years. (Commercial Capital Bank of Irvine bought Hawthorne, of El Segundo, in June.)
Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, Calif., has hired Natalie Braun as a director in its merchant banking division.
Ms. Braun will help develop the fund of funds business and conduct due diligence on primary and secondary investments for the $4.6 billion-asset unit of Silicon Valley Bancshares.
She was a vice president of the fund of funds group at TD Capital.
IndyMac Bancorp Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., has named Stuart A. Gabriel to the board of its $14.9 billion-asset IndyMac Bank.
Mr. Gabriel is the director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California. He also teaches finance and business economics at two of the university's schools, the Marshall School of Business and the School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
