MIDDLE ATLANTIC
First National Bank of Pennsylvania in Hermitage has hired James V. Dionise as its chief financial officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. Dionise was the retail distribution CFO at the regional community bank division of PNC Financial Services Group Inc. of Pittsburgh.
Before that he had been the CFO of PNC's private banking division.
Earlier in his 16 years of financial services experience he had been the CFO, treasurer, and corporate secretary of GA Financial Inc. (which First Commonwealth Financial Corp. of Indiana, Pa., bought last year), and had held senior management jobs at MBNA Corp. and Ernst & Young LLP.
At the $5.7 billion-asset First National, he will report to Brian Lilly, the CFO of the bank's parent, F.N.B. Corp.
Hudson Valley Bank of Yonkers, N.Y., has hired Michael J. Gilfeather as the head of its branch banking division and an executive vice president.
Mr. Gilfeather's last banking job was in 2001 with Bank of New York, where he was a senior manager of retail banking and the division manager for its Manhattan branches. He left to found Home Services Shop, a handyman service company in Pleasantville. He has 25 years of banking experience.
Hudson Valley Bank is a $1.9 billion-asset unit of Hudson Valley Holding Corp., also of Yonkers.
SOUTHEASTSouthern Community Financial Corp. of Winston-Salem, N.C., has promoted Scott C. McLean to treasurer of the company and its $1.3 billion-asset Southern Community Bank and Trust.
Mr. McLean will retain the title of senior vice president, which he received last year. Before being promoted to treasurer he had led accounting and finance for the company and the bank since joining it four and a half years ago as a vice president.
Before that he had been an auditor at Bank of America. He began his banking career as an auditor of capital markets at Signet Bank, which First Union Corp. (now Wachovia Corp.) bought in 1997.
Community Bankshares Inc. of Orangeburg, S.C., has hired George E. "Ged" Labban, a Wachovia Bank executive, as the president of one of its four banking units, Bank of Ridgeway.
Mr. Labban was Wachovia's regional director of retail banking for the Columbia area. He has 32 years of banking experience in South Carolina.
Bank of Ridgeway has $93 million of assets; Community Bankshares has $518 million.
