NEW ENGLAND
First National Bank of Ipswich in Massachusetts has hired Timothy L. Felter as its chief financial officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. Felter came to the $394 million-asset unit of First Ipswich Bancorp after working for 16 years at Lawrence Savings Bank. He joined it in 1990 as a senior vice president and its chief financial officer and left in January as its executive vice president of personal banking and its investment officer.
Before joining Lawrence Savings he had been a vice president at Shawmut Bank, which Fleet Financial Group bought in 1995. (Bank of America Corp. bought Fleet Financial Corp. in 2004.)
MIDDLE ATLANTICNorthfield Savings Bank of Staten Island, N.Y., has hired Robin Lefkowitz as its director of business development.
Ms. Lefkowitz joined the $1.4 billion-asset unit of NSB Holding Corp. from the SI Bank and Trust division of Independence Community Bank, where she had been the vice president of business development in Brooklyn. (Independence bought SI Bank and Trust in 2004.)
She joined SI Bank in 2000. Before that she had been a branch manager at Greenpoint Bank, which Northfork Bancorp. of Melville, N.Y., bought last year. She has 19 years of financial services experience.
SOUTHWESTSouthwest Securities Bank of Arlington, Tex., has hired Joe Barnhart as the manager of its mortgage banking division and a senior vice president.
Mr. Barnhart was the head of mortgage lending at the $1.8 billion-asset TexasBank of Fort Worth. He has 26 years of residential mortgage and commercial real estate lending experience.
Southwest Securities is a $828 million-asset unit of SWS Group Inc.
