MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Northfield Savings Bank of Staten Island, N.Y., has named Patrick Scura to its board.
Mr. Scura was the New Jersey financial services practice leader at KPMG LLP until retiring in September.
Northfield Savings is a $1.5 billion-asset unit of NSB Holding Corp.
SOUTHWESTGS Financial Corp. of Metairie, La., has hired J. Andrew Bower as the chief financial officer of the company and its $180 million-asset Guaranty Savings and Homestead Association.
For the past two and a half years Mr. Bower, working as an independent consultant, has provided internal audit and loan review services for the company and the thrift.
Before that he had worked in the audit department at Stewart Enterprises Inc., a Metairie funeral service provider. Earlier he had been an audit manager at Arthur Andersen LLP for eight years.
Sunrise Bank of Albuquerque, a unit of Capitol Bancorp Ltd. of Lansing, Mich., has hired Steve A. Marcum as its president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Marcum, a banker in Albuquerque for 16 years, had held the same jobs at U.S. New Mexico Federal Credit Union since 2003. He had joined it three years earlier as a senior vice president of business lending.
Before that he had been a senior vice president at First State Bank and, earlier, at Bank of New Mexico. He began his banking career as an assistant vice president and a commercial lender at First National Bank of Amarillo in Texas. He joined NationsBank of Texas in Dallas in 1989.
Sunrise Bank of Albuquerque has $68 million of assets. (Two of Capitol's other banks are also named Sunrise.)
WESTPacific Commerce Bank of Los Angeles has hired Brian H. Kelley as its chief executive officer.
He succeeded Ken Kasamatsu, who remains the president of the $60 million-asset bank, which was formed two and a half years ago. A press release said Mr. Kasamatsu would focus on expanding business development in the Japanese-American community.
Mr. Kelley was the president and CEO of the $150 million-asset Professional Business Bank of Pasadena, Calif. Before that he had been the president of InterBusiness Bank of Diamond Bar.
Earlier he had worked for 10 years as the deputy general manager of Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan Ltd., where he oversaw a portfolio of more than $1 billion of loans. He has 30 years of banking experience.
Commerce National Bank of Fullerton, Calif., has hired Rene V. Garcia as its chief financial officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. Garcia came to the $116 million-asset bank from CommerceWest Bank of Newport Beach; he was its CFO. Earlier he had been the controller and a vice president at Sunwest Bank of Tustin.
