MIDDLE ATLANTIC
WSFS Financial Corp. of Wilmington, Del., said that Stephen A. Fowle would join it as chief financial officer on Jan. 3.
Mr. Fowle was the CFO of Third Federal Savings and Loan Association of Cleveland, the largest mutual S&L in the country, with $8 billion of assets.
Before that he had been the vice president of corporate finance at Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc., an investment banking firm in Milwaukee.
Pascack Community Bank of Westwood, N.J., has hired William H. Winans as its president and chief executive officer.
He succeeded Robert J. Peters, who retired in September.
Mr. Winans had been the president and CEO of Mariners Bank of Edgewater, N.J., since 2001. Before that he had been a senior vice president at Summit Bank, which FleetBoston Financial Corp. bought in 2001. (Bank of America Corp. bought Fleet this year.)
Pascack Community, established in February 2002, has $49 million of assets.
Lakeland Bancorp Inc. of Oak Ridge, N.J., said that Roger Bosma, the president and chief executive officer of the company and its Lakeland Bank, has been named to the Community Bankers Council at the American Bankers Association.
The council is made up of 100 bankers from institutions in all 50 states.
Lakeland Bancorp, whose other unit is Newton Trust Co., has $2 billion of assets.
SOUTHEASTSCBT Financial Corp. of Columbia, S.C., has named John C. Pollok as its chief operating officer and that of its South Carolina Bank and Trust.
Mr. Pollok has been the president of SCBT's Mortgage Banc since that unit was created in May. Before that he had been the chief administrative officer for the holding company and the bank.
BankUnited Financial Corp. of Coral Gables, Fla., has promoted Joris Jabouin from senior to executive vice president and named him its general counsel.
Mr. Jabouin had been the general auditor for the company, whose BankUnited has $8.7 billion of assets, since joining it last year.
Before that he had been a vice president of auditing in Miami at Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika AG.
He managed all compliance activities in the United States and Latin America for the Allianz Group unit, implemented internal audit standards, and managed audit teams.
Before that he had been a senior auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers in its Charlotte and Miami offices.
SOUTHWESTSterling Bank of Houston has hired Allen D. Brown as a regional chief executive officer.
The $3.2 billion-asset unit of Sterling Bancshares Inc. has branches in Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas. Despite the title, Mr. Brown's duties will be companywide, not regional; he will oversee wealth management, international banking, Small Business Administration lending, and energy lending.
Mr. Brown was the president of Metrocorp Bancshares Inc. of Houston and the CEO of its $900 million-asset MetroBank.
WESTTemecula Valley Bank of California has made Joann Psomas its compliance officer.
Ms. Psomas, who joined the bank in 1996 and remains a senior vice president, was the operations administrator for the $595 million-asset unit of Temecula Valley Bancorp Inc.
That job has gone to Ruth Adell, who was hired as a senior vice president.
Ms. Adell was an executive vice president and the chief administrative officer at Business Bank of California, which UnionBanCal Corp., majority owned by Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc., bought in January.
She joined Business Bank in 1984, when its name was Bank of San Bernardino.
Sun Country Bank, an Upland, Calif., unit of America Bancshares Inc. with $336 million of assets, has hired Cynthia Schneider as its director of marketing.
Ms. Schneider, who has also been named a senior vice president, was a marketing officer at Business Bank of California.
