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Rurban Financial Corp. of Defiance, Ohio, said Mark A. Klein would join the company Tuesday as the president and chief executive officer of its $418 million-asset State Bank and Trust Co.
He will succeed Dean Miller, who has resigned to pursue other opportunities, Rurban said.
Mr. Klein was the senior vice president of the private banking group at Sky Bank of Bowling Green. He worked for 29 years at the $15.1 billion-asset unit of Sky Financial Group Inc.
Irwin Financial Corp. of Columbus, Ind., said John Burnett would join the company Sunday as its director of community relations and the president of its Irwin Financial Foundation.
Mr. Burnett is the president of the Community Education Coalition, a nonprofit organization in Columbus.
MIDDLE ATLANTICSterling Financial Corp. of Lancaster, Pa., has hired MaryAnn D. Detwiler as its chief accounting officer.
Ms. Detwiler was corporate accounting manager for Fulton Financial Corp., a $12.8 billion-asset multibank holding company in Lancaster. Before that she had worked various jobs over 13 years with Meridian Bancorp Inc., which is now a part of Wachovia Corp.
Sterling Financial's seven banks have $2.9 billion of assets.
SOUTHEASTOld Harbor Bank of Clearwater, Fla., said William W. Short would become its president Sunday.
Mr. Short, who had been an executive vice president since the $115 million-asset bank's opening in 2003, will remain its chief operating officer but give up his chief lending job to James A. Ray.
Mr. Ray, who will also be promoted from senior to executive vice president, was a commercial lending officer.
Old Harbor Bank also said Patricia Sieg would become its senior vice president of retail banking. She is a vice president and the bank's office manager.
Bancshares of Florida Inc. of Naples said Tracy L. Keegan would join the company Sunday as its chief financial officer and an executive vice president.
She will succeed David G. Wallace, who will retire as the CFO but will remain with the $528 million-asset company on a part-time basis as an investor relations officer.
Ms. Keegan was the CFO of Bankers Bank, a unit of Community Financial Services Inc. of Atlanta.
She has 17 years of financial industry experience.
Bancshares of Florida owns three banks.
Cardinal Financial Corp. of Tysons Corner, Va., has promoted executive vice president Kim C. Liddell to chief operating officer.
Mr. Liddell, who joined the $1.5 billion-asset company last year as its chief administrative officer, will continue to oversee its retail branch network, retail lending, call center, deposit operations, facilities, human resources, information technology, compliance, and marketing.
He began his banking career in 1984 as a management trainee at First Virginia Bank, which BB&T Corp. bought in 2003.
Jefferson Federal Bank of Morristown, Tenn., has hired Janet Ketner, a former colleague of its president and chief executive officer, as its executive vice president of retail banking.
Ms. Ketner, who has 35 years of banking experience, was an executive vice president at First Tennessee Bank of Memphis. Anderson L. Smith was the president of consumer financial services for east Tennessee metro markets at First Tennessee before becoming Jefferson Federal's president and CEO in 2002.
