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Pavilion Bancorp Inc. of Adrian, Mich., said that Ryan C. Luttenton will become its chief financial officer in mid-January.
Mr. Luttenton was a senior manager and a senior auditor in the financial institutions group at Crowe Chizek and Co. LLC of South Bend, Ind. Before that he had managed client relationships for the big accounting firm and provided risk-based auditing services for financial institutions.
Pavilion Bancorp owns Bank of Lenawee, which has $286 million of assets.
SOUTHEASTOne Georgia Bank of Atlanta, which is in organization, has hired chief financial and lending officers.
James Thomas, the new CFO, had the same job as a senior vice president for Georgia-Carolina Bancshares Inc. of Augusta and its $374 million-asset First Bank of Georgia.
Richard Carlton, the new lending chief, was the senior vice president of commercial lending for American Trust Bank, a $130 million-asset unit of American Trust Bancorp of Roswell, Ga.
This month One Georgia got state approval to incorporate; it is still awaiting federal approval. Its organizers say it should open in March.
Bank of Florida Southwest in Naples has hired James L. Goehler as its president and chief executive officer.
He succeeded John B. James, who earlier had been named the director of corporate management and an executive vice president of the $268 million-asset bank's parent company, Bankshares of Florida Inc.
Mr. Goehler was the chief administrative officer and a senior vice president for Fifth Third Bank's Florida operations in Naples. Before that he had been the chief operating officer and a senior executive vice president at First National Bank of Florida, which Fifth Third bought in January.
Earlier in his 35-year career in the financial services industry he had been the Naples city president for AmSouth Bank; the president of Mid-State Federal Savings Bank in Ocala, Fla.; and the chief financial officer and an executive vice president of First American Savings Bank in Greensboro, N.C.
In addition to Bank of Florida Southwest, Bankshares of Florida owns Bank of Florida Tampa Bay, with $64 million of assets, and Bank of Florida of Fort Lauderdale, which has $195 million.
Appalachian Bancshares Inc. of Ellijay, Ga., said that Darren M. Cantlay, the chief financial officer of the company and its $546 million-asset Appalachian Community Bank, has resigned "to pursue other endeavors."
Joseph T. Moss, who joined the company and the bank in July as the president and chief operating officer of both, will succeed Mr. Cantlay as the principal financial officer while a search for a permanent replacement is under way, the company said.
WESTCounty Bank, a $1.8 billion-asset unit of Capital Corp of the West in Merced, Calif., has promoted Ed J. Rocha to president.
He will remain the bank's chief operating officer, a job he has had since mid-2003. Before that he had been the chief banking officer from 1997 to 2003, and, for two years before that, a regional manager.
He joined the bank as a vice president in 1995, got bumped up to senior vice president in 1997, and became an executive vice president in 1999.
Earlier in his career he had been a senior vice president and branch administrator at Pacific Valley National Bank of Modesto, Calif. (Westamerica Bancorp. of San Rafael bought Pacific Valley in 1995.)
North Bay Bancorp of Napa, Calif., has hired Patrick E. Phelan as the chief financial officer of the company and its $630 million-asset Vintage Bank.
Mr. Phelan, who has also been named an executive vice president, had the same job and rank at Business Bank of California (the Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. affiliate UnionBanCal Corp. of San Francisco bought the San Bernardino bank last year.) Earlier he had been the CFO and an executive vice president at Metro Commerce Bank of San Rafael, which Business Bank of California bought at the start of 2002.
Still earlier he had various senior jobs at Deloitte & Touche LLP and Ernst & Young LLP.
Pacific Continental Bank of Eugene, Ore., has promoted Casey Hogan from senior to executive vice president.
Mr. Hogan will remain the chief credit officer for the $574 million-asset unit of Pacific Continental Corp. He joined the bank in 1995.
