MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Ridgewood Savings Bank in New York has named William C. McGarry its chairman.
Mr. McGarry will remain the $3.3 billion-asset bank's chief executive officer, a job he has had for the past year, and its president, which he became in 2001.
Ridgewood Savings also made five senior promotions:
George Hornburg, its chief financial officer, has gone from senior to executive vice president; Peter M. Boger has been named a senior vice president and the senior mortgage officer, having been the vice president of commercial real estate lending.
Norman L. McNamee has also been bumped up from vice president to senior vice president. He remains the head of human resources.
John A. Piazza and Leonard Stekol have been promoted to vice president, up from assistant vice president. Mr. Piazza, who was a district manager, now heads branch operations. Mr. Stekol remains the chief accounting officer.
Northfield Savings Bank of Staten Island has hired Damien D. Kane as its marketing director and a vice president.
For the last seven years Mr. Kane had been an assistant vice president and the marketing director for the in-house advertising agency at Union Center National Bank of Union, N.J.
Before that he had been a marketing specialist at CoreStates Bank, which First Union Corp. (now Wachovia Corp.) bought in 1998.
Northfield Savings has $1.5 billion of assets. Its holding company is NSB Holding Corp.
Fulton Financial Corp. of Lancaster, Pa., has named Abraham S. Opatut to its board.
Mr. Opatut is the chairman of First Washington Bank, one of Fulton's 13 banks. (The $11.1 billion-asset company bought First Washington FinancialCorp of Windsor, N.J., in December.)
WESTGreat Basin Bank of Nevada in Elko has made Shirley Alen its senior vice president of credit and operations.
Ms. Alen was the credit administrator and a vice president of the $149 million-asset bank, whose holding company is Great Basin Financial Corp. It hired her in 1999.
Hanmi Financial Corp. of Los Angeles said that Dong Il Kim, its chief credit officer, had resigned.
Mr. Kim joined Hanmi last April when it bought Pacific Union Bank, where he had been the chief credit officer. Hanmi's senior credit officer, Cliff Sung, has succeeded him on an interim basis.
Hanmi Financial, which owns the $3.1 billion-asset Hanmi Bank, targets the Korean-American communities of Los Angeles, Orange, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and San Diego counties.
