MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Stonebridge Bank of West Chester, Pa., has hired Joseph C. Spada as its president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Spada was the executive vice president of sales at Blue Ball National Bank, a division of CommunityBanks of Millersburg. (CommunityBanks Inc. bought Blue Ball National's parent, PennRock Financial Services Corp., on July 1.)
Earlier in his 30-year banking career Mr. Spada had been an executive vice president at Bank of Baltimore.
Stonebridge Bank is a $360 million-asset unit of Stonebridge Financial Corp.
Cardinal Bank of McLean, Va., has hired Kathleen Walsh Carr as the president of operations for Washington, a new market for the $1.5 billion-asset unit of Cardinal Financial Corp.
The bank said it would open its first branch there this year.
Ms. Carr was the president and chief executive officer of Abigail Adams National Bank and a director of its parent, Abigail Adams National Bancorp Inc. of Washington, from 1998 to 2005.
Before that she had been a senior vice president at NationsBank, now Bank of America.
She began her 30-year banking career at National Bank of Washington, which Riggs Bank bought in 1990.
Union State Bank of Nanuet, N.Y., has promoted John P. Bartolotta to deputy chief lending officer and John J. Clerkin to deputy chief credit officer.
Mr. Clerkin has also been promoted to senior vice president; Mr. Bartolotta remains one.
Mr. Clerkin was the commercial credit department manager and a vice president. He joined the $3 billion-asset unit of U.S.B. Holding Co. Inc. in 2000 as a senior credit analyst and an assistant vice president.
Before that he had been a senior credit analyst at Hudson Valley Bank. He began his banking career at the Yonkers bank in 1993.
Mr. Bartolotta joined Union State Bank in 1998 as a commercial loan officer and a vice president.
He became a senior vice president in 2001 and its Rockland County commercial loan manager three years later.
He began his banking career in 1974 as a teller with Bankers Trust New York Corp., which Deutsche Bank AG bought in 1999.
WESTLandmark National Bank of Solana Beach, Calif., has said Rick Mandelbaum, its president for the past year, has become its chief executive officer, too.
Mr. Mandelbaum had helped found the $125 million-asset bank in 2002 as its chief operating and credit officer. Before that he had been a senior vice president and a regional administrator for Scripps Bank until U.S. Bancorp bought it in 2000.
Earlier he had been a senior vice president and a real estate manager at First Pacific National Bank until Zions Bancorp. bought it in 1998.
As Landmark's CEO, he succeeded Ronald J. Carlson, who has retired. Mr. Carlson had also been the bank's chairman. That post has gone to James J. Schmid, who was promoted from vice chairman. Mr. Schmid is the president of Chelsea Investment Corp. of Encinitas.
Commercial Capital Bank of Irvine, Calif., has hired Morgan Ferris as a director of loan production in its income property lending division.
He joined the $5.2 billion-asset unit of Commercial Capital Bancorp Inc. from Washington Mutual Bank. In his four years there he had originated $325 million of multifamily loans.
Before that he had been a multifamily and commercial real estate loan originator at the Encino real estate broker Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp.
Vineyard Bank of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., has hired Patti Lazard as a senior vice president and a managing director for San Diego.
Ms. Lazard was a director of business development for San Diego at KPMG LLP. Earlier in her banking career she had held senior jobs at Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, and Citibank.
Vineyard Bank is a $1.7 billion-asset unit of Vineyard National Bancorp.
