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Bank of Evansville, a $159 million-asset unit of American Community Bancorp Inc. in Indiana, has promoted John T. Lamb to chief lending officer and made him an executive vice president.
Mr. Lamb was the bank's senior vice president of commercial banking. He has 21 years of banking and financial services experience.
MIDDLE ATLANTICCarver Bancorp Inc. of New York has made president and chief executive officer Deborah C. Wright its chairman as well.
She succeeded Frederick O. Terrell, who resigned.
The company owns the $580 million-asset Carver Federal Savings Bank, one of the country's largest minority-run banks.
SOUTHEASTBank of Granite Corp. of Granite Falls, N.C., has made president Charles M. Snipes its chief executive officer too.
He succeeded John A. Forlines Jr., who will remain its chairman.
Mr. Snipes is also the president and CEO of the $1 billion-asset Bank of Granite, which he joined in 1982.
ABC Bancorp, a multibank holding company in Moultrie, Ga., has hired Dennis J. Zember Jr. as its chief financial officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Zember had worked for Flag Financial Corp. of Atlanta for the past three years - as its treasurer, the CFO of its $784 million-asset Flag Bank, and a senior vice president of both. He has 14 years of financial services experience.
First Charter Corp. of Charlotte said Charles A. Caswell will join it Monday and become its chief financial officer March 17.
He will succeed Robert O. Bratton, who is set to retire at the end of March after 30 years with the company.
Mr. Caswell had been the CFO of the $3 billion-asset Integra Bank of Evansville, Ind., since October 2002. Before that he had worked five years at Centura Banks Inc. and then, after Royal Bank of Canada bought it, at RBC Centura Banks Inc. He left as its CFO.
First Charter Corp. owns First Charter Bank, which has $4.4 billion of assets.
Heritage Bankshares Inc. of Norfolk has hired Michael S. Ives as its president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Ives was Wachovia Corp.'s CEO for the Hampton Roads, Va., market. He had held the same job at SouthTrust Corp., which Wachovia bought in November.
He joined SouthTrust in 2001 when it bought Cenit Bancorp Inc., whose president and CEO he had been for 15 years.
At Heritage he succeeded Peter M. Meredith Jr. as CEO and Donald F. Price as president. Both had held the jobs since November; they succeeded Robert J. Keogh, who died.
Mr. Meredith will remain the company's chairman; Mr. Price was made the president of the Norfolk region, a newly created job.
WESTCommunity Bancorp of Las Vegas has hired Bruce Ford as an executive president and the chief credit officer of its $534 million-asset Community Bank of Nevada.
Mr. Ford was a senior regional credit officer at Wells Fargo Bank. He has 21 years of banking experience.
