MIDWEST
Citizens Banking Corp. of Flint, Mich., has made Stephen Figliuolo its corporate risk officer and Jeffrey A. Powell its controller and principal accounting officer.Mr. Figliuolo, an executive vice president, was the manager of loan and productions operations for the operations and technology management team.
Mr. Powell, a senior vice president, was the director of finance.
Citizens Banking has three banking units that have a combined $7.8 billion of assets.
FlagStar Bank of Troy, Mich., has opened its first retail banking branch in Atlanta and hired Chris Ensley to run it.
Mr. Ensley said Flagstar, which has had a lending office in Atlanta since 1993, plans to open four more retail branches there this year, eight more next year, and "many more down the line."
He came to the $14.3 billion-asset unit of Flagstar Bancorp after a 13-year career at National Bank of Commerce, where he had been a retail group manager for in-store and traditional branches. (Atlanta's SunTrust Banks Inc. bought the parent National Commerce Financial Corp. of Memphis in October.)
Pavilion Bancorp Inc. of Adrian, Mich., has made Emory Michael Schmidt the chairman of its $270 million-asset Bank of Lenawee.
Mr. Schmidt is a group vice president at Brazeway Inc., an Adrian company that manufactures aluminum tubing and refrigeration components.
He will remain on Pavilion's executive, finance, and compensation committees.
MIDDLE ATLANTIC
First National Trust Co. of Hermitage, Penn., has made David Buckiso a senior vice president and a senior client service manager.
Mr. Buckiso, who was a vice president and client service manager, joined the F.N.B. Corp. unit in 2003 as a manager of institutional services and employee benefits.
Before that he had been a vice president and relationship manager in the institutional investment group at PNC Advisors.
WEST
Heritage Commerce Corp. of San Jose, Calif., has hired Raymond Parker as the executive vice president of the banking division at its $1.15 billion-asset Heritage Bank of Commerce.
Mr. Parker spent 24 years at Union Bank of California and a predecessor, rising to an executive vice presidency in its commercial banking group. (He joined the old Union Bank in 1974; it merged with Bank of California in 1996 with the merger of their respective owners, Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo Ltd.)
Most recently Mr. Parker was the director of financial services at Exadel Inc., a software developer in Concord, Calif.
SOUTHWEST
Sterling Bank, a $3.4 billion-asset unit of Sterling Bancshares Inc. of Houston, has hired Sonny B. Lyles as its chief credit officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Lyles was the director of risk management at First American Bank of Bryan, Tex., which Citigroup Inc. bought in March. Before that he had been an executive vice president of Compass Bank of Birmingham, Ala., where he was a manager of credit administration, loan review, portfolio analysis, and credit policies.
Earlier in his 25 years of credit management he had worked at Bank United of Houston, which Washington Mutual Inc. bought in 2001.
At Sterling Bank, Mr. Lyles succeeded Daryl D. Bohls, who earlier had been named the chief executive officer of the bank's North Houston area.
