MIDDLE ATLANTIC
OceanFirst Bank of Toms River, N.J., has named Vito R. Nardelli its chief operating officer.
Mr. Nardelli, who remains an executive vice president, joined the bank last year to fill the newly created position of chief sales officer. Before that he had been the retail banking director and a senior vice president at Trust Co. Bank of Jersey City. (North Fork Bancorp. Inc. of Melville, N.Y., bought Trust Co. last year.)
Before joining Trust Co. he had held similar jobs at Dime Savings Bank (which Washington Mutual Inc. bought in 2002) and First Union National Bank (now Wachovia Bank).
OceanFirst Bank is a $2 billion-asset subsidiary of OceanFirst Financial Corp. in Toms River.
First National Bank of Pennsylvania in Greenville has hired Vincent J. Delie Jr. as the president and chief executive officer of its Pittsburgh region.
Mr. Delie was a corporate banking division manager and an executive vice president at National City Bank of Pennsylvania, a $16 billion-asset unit of National City Corp. of Cleveland.
Earlier he had been an associate with the investment banking group at Parker/Hunter Inc., a Pittsburgh investment bank, and had worked in the capital markets division of Paine Webber Inc. (now UBS PaineWebber).
First National Bank is a $5.7 billion-asset unit of F.N.B. Corp. of Hermitage, Pa.
Sterling Bancorp of New York has named Robert W. Lazar to its board and that of its $1.9 billion-asset Sterling National Bank.
Mr. Lazar is the president and chief executive officer of New York Business Development Corp., Empire State Certified Development Corp., and Statewide Zone Capital Corp.
SOUTHEASTFirst Bancorp of Troy, N.C., has named Jerry L. Ocheltree the president of its $1.7 billion-asset First Bank.
He succeeded James H. Garner, who will remain the chief executive officer of the bank and the president and CEO of the parent company.
Mr. Ocheltree was a senior vice president and a regional executive; he managed 10 of the bank's branches in North Carolina and its four in southern Virginia.
Before joining First Bank in 1998 he had been the president of First Virginia Bank Southeast in Wytheville.
Earlier he had been the president and chief executive officer of Premier Bank South, also of Wytheville. First Virginia Banks Inc. acquired its parent, Premier Bankshares, in 1997. (BB&T Corp. bought First Virginia in 2003.)
SCBT Financial Corp. of Columbia, S.C., has promoted Karen L. Dey to controller and principal accounting officer for the company and its two banking units.
Ms. Dey has led the $1.7 billion-asset company's funds management division since joining it in 2001 as a vice president. She was bumped up to senior vice president last year.
Earlier she had been a financial analyst manager for debt capital markets at Wachovia Bank.
SCBT Financial owns South Carolina Bank and Trust and South Carolina Bank and Trust of the Piedmont.
WESTVineyard Bank of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., has hired Elizabeth Reno as its chief banking officer, a newly created job, and an executive vice president.
Ms. Reno was a director at KPMG LLP, where she oversaw sales and marketing in the Los Angeles area.
Vineyard Bank is a $1.6 billion-asset unit of Vineyard National Bancorp.
