SOUTHEAST
Community Bankshares Inc. of Orangeburg, S.C., has made George E. Labban the director of marketing for the company, its Community Resource Mortgage Co., and its four banking units - Bank of Ridgeway, Florence National Bank, Sumter National Bank, and Orangeburg National Bank.
Mr. Labban had been the president of Bank of Ridgeway. That job has gone to William E. Howard Jr., who had been the unit's Columbia market executive and its director of commercial banking.
The $555 million-asset Community Bankshares has also made Matthew M. Way the chief operating officer of Orangeburg National Bank.
Mr. Way had been the chief credit officer of the bank, which he joined in 2000.
Bancshares of Florida Inc. of Naples has hired Tom Lane as its senior vice president of retail lending.
He will oversee consumer and residential lending, as well as credit cards, for its three banking units, which share the Bank of Florida name and have $570 million of combined assets.
Mr. Lane had led the consumer and residential lending departments in Naples for Fifth Third Bank. Before that he had been a senior vice president and manager of consumer lending for Fifth Third in Ohio.
Earlier he had been a senior vice president and a division manager at Huntington Bancshares Inc. and, still earlier, a senior vice president and a consumer lending manager at Bank of America.
M&F Bancorp Inc. of Durham, N.C., has hired Jonathan Sears Woodall as its chief financial officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. Woodall is the former CFO of ArrayXpress Inc., a genome sciences company in Raleigh. Before that he had been a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP of New York.
Most recently he had been a business adviser to North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Durham.
M&F Bancorp owns the $246 million-asset Mechanics and Farmers Bank.
SOUTHWESTProsperity Bancshares Inc. of Houston has made David Zalman its chairman.
Mr. Zalman remains the $4.4 billion-asset company's chief executive officer but gave up his job as its president. He also remains the chairman and CEO of its Prosperity Bank, jobs he had been given in 2001. He joined the bank in 1986.
James D. Rollins 3d has been named the parent company's president and chief operating officer.
Mr. Rollins remains the bank's president, a job he has held since last year. He joined the bank in 1994.
Matrix Bancorp Inc. of Denver said Theodore J. Abariotes has rejoined the company as its general counsel, its secretary, and a senior vice president.
Mr. Abariotes had been the assistant general counsel for Matrix from 2001 to 2005. Most recently he was the general counsel and a senior vice president of Specialized Loan Servicing LLC of Highlands Ranch, Colo.
Matrix Bancorp owns the $2.1 billion-asset Matrix Capital Bank.
WESTBank of Hawaii in Honolulu promoted Peter Biggs, John Gray, Toby Martyn, and Shelley Thompson from executive to senior executive vice presidents.
All four will also join the managing committee of the $10.2 billion-asset unit of Bank of Hawaii Corp., and three of them have been given additional duties.
Mr. Gray has been put in charge of the bank's nonbranch channels, which include call center, wire transfer, and electronic banking operations. He will remain the mortgage banking head, a job he has held since joining the bank in 2002.
Mr. Martyn has been put in charge of the bank's asset management group. He will remain the chief investment officer and the head of its institutional sales and service division, jobs he has held since joining the bank in 2004.
Ms. Thompson has been put in charge of the bank's brokerage unit, Bankoh Investment Services Inc. She will remain the chief fiduciary officer, in charge of the bank's private client services. She joined the bank last year.
Mr. Biggs remains the manager of consumer products, a job he has had since joining the bank in 2000. Those products include the Visa card that Bank of Hawaii expects to start issuing with MBNA America Bank in the third quarter.
