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Taylor Capital Group Inc. of Rosemont, Ill., said that Daniel C. Stevens would become the chief financial officer of the company and its $2.8 billion-asset Cole Taylor Bank on Jan. 3.
Mr. Stevens is the chief financial and administrative officer at UMB Financial Corp., a $6.8 billion-asset Kansas City, Mo., multibank holding company.
He will succeed Bruce W. Taylor, who has held the CFO jobs on an interim basis since J. Christopher Alstrin resigned in March. Mr. Taylor will remain the president of Taylor Capital and the president and chief executive of Cole Taylor Bank.
Old National Bancorp of Evansville, Ind., said that John S. Poelker, its chief financial officer, would retire March 31.
Mr. Poelker, who is also an executive vice president, has been the CFO since joining the $9 billion-asset company in 1998. A successor has not yet been named.
Ameriana Bancorp in New Castle, Ind., has named Richard E. Hennessey to its board.
Mr. Hennessey is the chief financial officer and an executive vice president of Shiel Sexton Co. Inc., a construction company in Indianapolis.
Ameriana is the parent company of Ameriana Bank and Trust.
MIDDLE ATLANTICHudson Valley Bank in Yonkers, N.Y., has hired Joel C. Sweren as its chief operating officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Sweren was the president and chief executive officer of the $77 million-asset Maryland Permanent Bank of Owings Mills.
Before that he had been a senior vice president at Bank of Baltimore (now part of Wachovia Bank) and earlier an executive vice president at Yorkridge Calvert Federal Savings Association. (Household Bank of Newport Beach, Calif., bought Yorkridge Calvert in 1990 and was itself sold to a consortium of buyers in 2002 and 2003.)
Hudson Valley Bank is a $1.9 billion-asset unit of Hudson Valley Holding Corp.
WESTSilicon Valley Bancshares of Santa Clara, Calif., has hired David Ketsdever as the chief executive officer of its investment banking subsidiary, SVB Alliant.
Mr. Ketsdever had run his own software company, Green Ridge Systems Inc., since 2002 but spent most of his career in investment banking. Most recently he had been a managing director of the investment banking team at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and the head of its global software group.
Before that he had been a managing director of the technology group at Montgomery Securities (now Banc of America Securities). Earlier he had worked at Bankers Trust Corp. (which Deutsche Bank AG later bought) and Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Washington Trust Bank of Spokane has opened its first Oregon branch, in Portland, and has hired Chris Rasmussen as its president for the state.
Mr. Rasmussen was the president of Pacific Northwest Bank's Oregon operations until Wells Fargo & Co. bought its parent company last year. Before that he had been the president of Bank of the Northwest, which Pacific Northwest Bancorp. bought in 2002.
Washington Trust, a $2.4 billion-asset unit of W.T.B. Financial Corp., has 32 branches in Washington and Idaho.
SOUTHEASTBank of Florida in Naples has added two local executives to its board.
Russell A. Budd is the president of Wall Systems of Southwest Florida, a construction company. Martin M. Wasmer is the chief executive officer of Wasmer, Schroeder & Co. Inc., an investment advisory firm.
Bank of Florida is a unit of Bancshares of Florida Inc., a $345 million-asset multibank holding company.
