MIDDLE ATLANTIC
F.N.B. Corp. of Hermitage, Pa., has promoted Gary Roberts from chief operating officer to chief executive officer and president of its First National Bank of Pennsylvania.
He succeeded Stephen Gurgovits, who was named the $4.8 billion-asset bank's chairman. In that job he succeeded Peter Mortensen, who remains the parent company's chairman. Mr. Gurgovits is its president and CEO.
Mr. Roberts joined F.N.B. in 1997 as the president and CEO of its Metropolitan National Bank. He became First National's chief operating officer and a senior vice president five years later, when it absorbed Metropolitan.
SOUTHEASTEverBank, a $2.7 billion-asset unit of EverBank Financial Corp. of Jacksonville, Fla., has hired the chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch &. Co. Inc.'s home financing unit as the head of its adviser services group.
Kevin O'Hanlon spent 28 years at Merrill Lynch Credit Corp.
EverBank, which has four traditional branches but is primarily an Internet bank, has made Mr. O'Hanlon an executive vice president and put him in charge of its advisory program. Launched in April 2003, the program has signed contracts with 55 broker-dealer firms representing 12,000 financial advisers, allowing them to sell the bank's products.
EverBank has also hired Lisa Henrichsen as its chief marketing officer.
Ms. Henrichsen was the vice president of direct marketing at American Century Investment Management Inc., where she had worked for nine and a half years.
Fidelity Southern Corp. of Atlanta said that H. Palmer Proctor Jr. became the president of its $1.2 billion-asset Fidelity Bank on Oct. 1.
He succeeded James. B. Miller, who remains the bank's chairman and chief executive officer and the parent company's president.
Mr. Proctor remains the head of commercial lending. He joined Fidelity Bank in 1990.
WESTAmericanWest Bancorp. of Spokane has hired Robert M. Daugherty as the president and chief executive officer of the company and of its $1.1 billion-asset AmericanWest Bank.
Mr. Daugherty was the California president for Umpqua Bank of Portland, Ore. He joined the bank in July, when Umpqua Holdings Corp. bought Humbolt Bancorp, where he had been the president and CEO.
Before that he had held the same jobs at Draper Bank and Trust of Utah, which Zions Bancorp. bought in 2001.
As AmericanWest's head, he succeeded Wes Colley, who has retired.
