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State Bank and Trust Co., a Defiance, Ohio, unit of Rurban Financial Corp., has hired David A. Anderson as the president for its Allen County market.
The $392 million-asset State Bank and Trust entered the market when Rurban bought two Liberty Savings Bank branches from Liberty Capital Inc. last month.
Mr. Anderson was the chief lending officer and a senior vice president at Union Bank Co. of Columbus Grove. He has 21 years of financial services experience.
MIDDLE ATLANTICProvident Bank of Jersey City has promoted Donald W. Blum from senior to executive vice president.
Mr. Blum remains the chief lending officer, a job he has held since joining the $6.4 billion-asset unit of Provident Financial Services Inc. in 2001.
Before that he had been a senior vice president of commercial real estate for Fleet Bank, which Bank of America Corp. bought last year. Earlier he had led commercial real estate lending for northern New Jersey at First Fidelity Bank (now Wachovia Bank).
Provident Bank has also hired Anthony C. Tufaro as its vice president of corporate cash management. Mr. Tufaro was a vice president and a senior treasury sales officer at Wachovia Bank.
Before that he had been the vice president of cash management sales at Midlantic National Bank (now PNC Bank) and, earlier, at First Fidelity Bank.
WESTUmpqua Bank of Roseburg, Ore., has hired Bill Fike as its California president.
Mr. Fike will join the $4.9 billion-asset unit of Umpqua Holdings Corp. next month and will be based in Sacramento. He will succeed Ray Davis, Umpqua Holdings' president and chief executive officer, who had been filling the California post on an interim basis.
It had been vacant since Robert M. Daugherty left in September to become the president and chief executive officer of AmericanWest Bancorp.
Since 1999 Mr. Fike had been an executive vice president of Bank of the West of San Francisco. He managed a portfolio of $3.2 billion of loans and $1.1 billion of deposits for the BNP Paribas unit.
Before joining Bank of the West he had been the president and CEO for seven years at SierraWest Bancorp, which BancWest Corp. bought in 1999.
