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Sterling Bank of Houston has hired C. Wallis McMath Jr. as its chief information officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. McMath was the CIO of First American Bank of Bryan, Tex., which Citigroup Inc. bought last year and renamed Citibank Texas.
SOUTHEASTCapital Bank, a $1.3 billion-asset unit of Capital Bank Corp. in Raleigh, has named Fairfax C. Reynolds an executive vice president and the head of commercial and retail banking for its central region.
Mr. Reynolds was the executive vice president of commercial and retail banking at 1st State Bank of Burlington. (N.C. Capital Bank Corp. bought 1st State Bancorp in January.)
SCBT Financial Corp. of Columbia, S.C., has promoted John F. Windley to president of its $1.6 billion-asset South Carolina Bank and Trust.
He succeeded Robert R. Hill Jr., who will remain the bank's chief executive officer and the parent company's president and CEO.
Mr. Windley was an executive vice president and a division head in charge of four regions at the bank, as well as the head of its wealth management group. He joined the bank in 2002 as the senior vice president of its Greenville expansion.
Before that he had worked for 26 years at Bank of America and its predecessors.
The $1.9 billion-asset SCBT Financial also owns South Carolina Bank and Trust of the Piedmont and Sunbank.
New Century Bank of Dunn, N.C., has created a mortgage division, NC Bank Mortgage, and named Sandra Heath to run it.
John Q. Shaw, New Century's president and chief executive officer, said the initiative was prodded in part because the bank was recently "made aware that there is a mortgage company with a name similar to ours" and wanted to avoid confusion.
Ms. Heath duties as the bank's mortgage services manager did not change, but she acknowledged the importance of being able to "market mortgages more openly through the new name."
She joined the $328 million-asset unit of New Century Bancorp Inc. five years ago.
WESTMeridian Bank of Phoenix has hired Bob Wilson as its president and chief operating officer.
Mr. Wilson had been a senior vice president at Wells Fargo Bank and its specialty markets manager in Phoenix. He has 20 years of banking experience in the area.
Meridian Bank is a $1.3 billion-asset unit of Marquette Financial Cos., a Minneapolis financial services holding company owned by the Pohlad family.
Pacific Capital Bancorp of Santa Barbara, Calif., has named Frederick W. Clough its first chief administrative officer and hired George Leis as the head of its wealth management business.
Mr. Clough has also been promoted to executive vice president.
He remains the general counsel, a job he has held since joining the $6.9 billion-asset company as a senior vice president in 2001.
Before that he had been the managing partner of the Santa Barbara law firm Reicker, Clough, Pfau, Pyle, McRoy & Herman LLP, which he helped found in 1996.
Mr. Leis joined Pacific Capital from Deutsche Bank's private wealth management division, where he was a managing director and the head of its U.S. private wealth management trust group.
Before joining the Deutsche Bank AG unit in 2004 he had been a senior vice president and the director of the private client services centers at Wells Fargo & Co.
At Pacific Capital, he succeeded Donald Barry, who will retire at the end of next month.
