NEW ENGLAND
United Financial Bancorp Inc. of West Springfield, Mass., said Mark A. Roberts will become the chief financial officer and an executive vice president of the company and its $907 million-asset United Bank on Monday.
He will succeed Donald F.X. Lynch, who is to leave the company this month.
Mr. Roberts was a vice president and the controller of Connecticut Bank and Trust Co. of Hartford. For six years before that he had been the vice president of finance at Woronoco Savings Bank, a Westfield, Mass., thrift that Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc. of Pittsfield, Mass., bought last year.
Still earlier he had been the accounting and finance manager at Springfield Institution for Savings, also in Massachusetts. (A TD Banknorth predecessor bought the thrift in 1998).
MIDWESTIntegra Bank Corp. of Evansville, Ind., has made Martin M. Zorn its chief financial officer and its executive vice president of finance and risk.
Mr. Zorn, who will remain the company's secretary, was its chief risk officer. He joined the company, which owns the $2.7 billion-asset Integra Bank, in 2001 as its executive vice president for commercial banking and metro markets.
Marshall BankFirst Corp. of Minneapolis has hired John G. Kimball as the president of its two banking units, Marshall Bank and BankFirst.
Mr. Kimball came to the $600 million-asset company from Associated Bank of Green Bay, Wis., whose Minnesota operations he had led as a regional president.
Before that he had been a senior vice president of corporate banking in Grand Rapids for Fifth Third Bank.
MIDDLE ATLANTICFlushing Financial Corp. of Lake Success, N.Y., has hired Maria A. Grasso as the chief operating officer and an executive vice president of the company and its $2.4 billion-asset Flushing Savings Bank.
Ms. Grasso was the senior vice president of the Long Island/ Queens division at Bank of New York, overseeing a 102-branch network. Before that she had been the senior vice president of the New York metro division at Fleet Bank (now Bank of America).
Earlier she had held senior management jobs at Natwest Bank (which FleetBoston Financial Corp. bought in 1996) and Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
SOUTHEASTCommunity Bankshares Inc. of Orangeburg, S.C., has named Michael A. Wolfe its chief banking officer. Mr. Wolfe will remain the president and chief executive officer of Orangeburg Bank, the largest of the $555 million-asset company's four banking units.
He joined Orangeburg Bank as a senior credit officer in 1979.
First Financial Holdings Inc. of Charleston, S.C., has named Susan E. Baham the chief operating officer of its $2.5 billion-asset First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Charleston.
She remains the chief financial officer and an executive vice president of both.
Ms. Baham joined the bank in 1971 and was named its vice president of finance in 1984. Four years later she became the parent company's chief accounting officer as well, and in 1996 she became the CFO of both.
She became an executive vice president in 2004.
EverBank of Jacksonville, Fla., has hired Ted Davis as a vice president and the sales director for the Mid-Atlantic region in its commercial real estate lending division.
He will be based in Memphis, where he was a loan officer at Imperial Capital Bank, a $3 billion-asset unit of ITLA Capital Corp. He has 15 years of experience in commercial loan underwriting origination.
EverBank has $3.7 billion of assets and is owned by EverBank Financial Corp.
WESTLegacy Bank of Campbell, Calif., has made Lane Lawson its interim chief executive officer.
He succeeded Richard Whitsell, who has left the $83 million-asset bank.
Mr. Lawson was its executive vice president of commercial lending; he started its real estate division in 2004. Before that he had been the president and CEO of Heritage Bank South Valley (now Heritage Bank of Commerce) of Morgan Hill, Calif.
