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EverBank of Jacksonville, Fla., has hired Curtis Cunkle as the chief operations officer of its Florida branch banking division, which does business as EverBank of Florida.
Mr. Cunkle was the commercial banking manager for northeast Florida at SouthTrust Bank. (Wachovia Corp. bought the parent SouthTrust Corp. in November.) Earlier he had held the same title at American National Bank of Florida, which SouthTrust bought in 1998. He has 18 years of banking experience.
EverBank has also hired Scott Baldwin as a senior vice president in the commercial lending division of the branch operation. Mr. Baldwin, who has 13 years of experience in real estate lending, was a senior vice president of the commercial real estate departments at South Financial Group Inc.'s Mercantile Bank of Orlando and, earlier, at CNB National Bank of Jacksonville. (South Financial, of Greenville, S.C., bought CNB National's parent in July.)
EverBank, which has $3 billion of assets, was founded as an Internet bank. Alliance Capital Partners of Jacksonville bought it in 2002 and renamed itself EverBank Financial Corp. last year.
James Monroe Bank of Arlington, Va., has promoted John J. Brough to chief financial officer.
Mr. Brough, who is a senior vice president, will remain the Bank Secrecy Act officer for the $400 million-asset bank, whose holding company is James Monroe Bancorp Inc.
He joined the bank last year as its controller. Before that he had been the cashier, a regional controller, and a senior vice president at the $11.2 billion-asset First Virginia Banks Inc., which BB&T Corp. bought in 2003.
SOUTHWESTIberiabank Corp., which owns the $2.4 billion-asset Iberiabank of Lafayette, La., has shuffled its senior management team.
George Becker has been named the director of organizational development. Mr. Becker, who remains an executive vice president and the corporate secretary, was the director of corporate operations.
That job has gone to executive vice president Marilyn Burch. She had been the chief financial officer since 2001, two years after joining the company as its corporate controller.
Anthony Restel, the company's treasurer for the last three years, has become its CFO as well. He was also bumped up from senior to executive vice president.
Joseph Zanco, the bank's controller, will now be the company's too, and the principal accounting officer of both. Mr. Zanco is a senior vice president of the bank, which he joined in 2002.
The bank has also made executive vice president Karl Hoefer the president of its New Orleans market. For the past four years Mr. Hoefer had been the New Orleans manager of the bank's commercial division.
