MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Leesport Financial Corp. of Wyomissing, Pa., has hired Robert D. Davis as the president and chief executive officer and a director of the company and its $896 million-asset Leesport Bank.
Mr. Davis has also been named the chairman of the company's Madison Financial Advisors LLC and Essick & Barr LLC. He will join Leesport Financial on Sept. 19.
For the past six years he has been the president and CEO of Republic First Bank, a $780 million-asset unit of Republic First Bancorp Inc. of Philadelphia. (Republic said in a press release that he will leave the bank Tuesday and will be succeeded on an interim basis by Harry Madonna, the parent company's president and CEO.)
Earlier in his 30-year banking career Mr. Davis had been a regional president at Mellon Bank in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey.
Synergy Financial Group Inc. of Cranford, N.J., has promoted A. Richard Abrahamian to chief financial officer of the company and its $921 million-asset Synergy Bank.
Mr. Abrahamian, who remains a senior vice president, joined the bank in July as its head of finance and accounting. Before that he had been a senior vice president at PNC Bank, where he evaluated expansion and performance enhancement opportunities for its retail bank.
Earlier he had been a vice president and the controller at United National Bancorp of Bridgewater, N.J. From 1992 until 2004 he had been a senior vice president and the chief accounting officer at its UnitedTrust Bank. (PNC Financial Services Group Inc. of Pittsburgh bought United National last year.)
WESTRabobank, the $2.7 billion-asset El Centro, Calif., retail banking unit of the Dutch giant Rabobank Group, has hired Mark Andino as its chief administrative officer and an executive vice president.
He will be based in Sacramento.
For the past 10 years Mr. Andino has been the chief financial officer of four California financial institutions, most recently of First Bancshares Inc. of San Luis Obispo, which Pacific Capital Bancorp of Santa Barbara bought Aug. 1.
SOUTHWESTCommercebank, a Coral Gables, Fla., unit of Mercantil Servicios Financieros CA of Caracas, has hired Lucina Anchondo as its vice president of international corporate banking for Mexico.
She will be based in the bank's Houston office.
Ms. Anchondo was the assistant vice president of international trade finance at Union Planters Bank, which Regions Financial Corp. bought in July 2004. She has 10 years of financial services experience in the United States and Latin America.
Commercebank has $3.9 billion of assets.
