SOUTHEAST Carolina National Corp. of Columbia, S.C., has hired Harry R. Brown as the chief financial officer of the company and its $165 million-asset Carolina National Bank and Trust Co.
For the last eight years Mr. Brown was a senior officer and the director of accounting systems and projects at NetBank Inc. in Alpharetta, Ga.
For six years before that he had been the CEO and the chief operating officer at Comsouth Bankshares Inc. of Columbia.
Still earlier he had been the senior staff auditor and the manager of general accounting and financial systems at South Carolina National Bank of Charleston.
WESTCommunity Bank of the Bay of Oakland, Calif., has hired Thomas Mitchell to head its newly created commercial real estate lending program.
Mr. Mitchell, who has also been named a vice president at the $55 million-asset bank, was a commercial real estate vice president at KeyBank Real Estate Capital in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Before that he had been an assistant regional manager in Concord, Calif., for Manulife Financial Corp. and, earlier, a vice president of Riverbank Financial Group in San Francisco.
Bridge Bank of San Jose has made Emily Ruvalcaba the manager of its Bay Area corporate banking division and promoted her from senior to executive vice president.
Ms. Ruvalcaba, who joined the $537 million-asset unit of Bridge Capital Holdings four years ago, was the manager of its San Jose corporate banking group.
Earlier she had been the manager of the Small Business Administration loan department and a commercial loan group at San Jose National Bank, where she worked for 10 years.
Alliance Bancshares California in Culver City has hired Jeffrey D. Hamilton as an executive vice president and the chief credit officer of the company and its $675 million-asset Alliance Bank.
Mr. Hamilton has worked as a chief credit officer since 1982, most recently at Orange County Business Bank of Newport Beach, Calif.
West Coast Bank of Lake Oswego, Ore., has promoted Laura McKay to vice president and head of treasury management products and sales.
Ms. McKay had been a treasury management sales manager since joining the bank in 2000. West Coast Bancorp is the holding company for the $2 billion-asset bank.
Business Bank of Nevada in Las Vegas has hired Shannon Cook as the head of its commercial real estate lending department.
Ms. Cook, who has also been named a senior vice president at the $439 million-asset unit of Business Bank Corp., was a vice president and a commercial loan officer for five years at Silver State Bank of Henderson, Nev.
Before that she had been a senior credit analyst for Transamerica Distribution Finance in Chicago.
Earlier she had worked a series of jobs in Boise, Idaho: as a credit officer for Triad Leasing and Financial Inc., a branch operations supervisor for U.S. Bank, and, at the start of her banking career, a collections officer for Key Bank.
