NEW ENGLAND
First National Bank of Ipswich in Massachusetts has hired Douglas Smith as the president of its Boston division.
He will oversee operations for two branches, in Boston and Cambridge, for the $400 million-asset unit of First Ipswich Corp.
Mr. Smith was a vice president of commercial real estate at Eastern Bank, a $6.4 billion-asset unit of Eastern Bank Corp. of Boston.
Before that he had been an assistant vice president of lending at Cambridgeport Bank, which Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC's Citizens Financial Group Inc. bought in 2003.
MIDDLE ATLANTICProvident Bank of Jersey City has hired Janet D. Krasowski as its chief human resources officer and a senior vice president.
Ms. Krasowski had the same job and title for the past five years at the $2.7 billion-asset Atlantic Bank of New York, which New York Community Bancorp Inc. bought in April from National Bank of Greece.
Before joining Atlantic she had been a senior vice president and the benefits director for nine years at Dime Savings Bank of New York, which Washington Mutual Bank bought in 2002.
Still earlier she had led human resources at American Savings Bank.
Provident Bank is a $6 billion-asset unit of Provident Financial Services Inc.
SOUTHEASTBancshares of Florida Inc., a $620 million-asset multibank holding company in Naples, has named R. Moyle Fritz its treasurer.
Mr. Fritz will remain the chief financial officer of its banking operations in its eastern region: Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach County.
He joined the company in 2004.
SOUTHWESTViewPoint Bank of Plano, Tex., has hired Rick Robertson as its executive vice president of retail banking, a newly created job.
Mr. Robertson came to the $1.4 billion-asset bank, which changed its charter from a credit union last year, from KeyBank. He had been the president of the bank's Michigan district.
He has 25 years of banking experience.
WESTAmerican Business Bank of Los Angeles has promoted Patti A. Vollmer to regional vice president and put her in charge of its South Bay region in southern California.
Ms. Vollmer was a vice president and a senior relationship manager at the $464 million-asset bank, which she joined in 1999. Before that she had the same title and job at Mellon 1st Business Bank.
In her 22 years of banking experience, she has also worked at City National Bank and First Interstate Bank.
Preferred Bank, a $1.2 billion-asset commercial bank in Los Angeles that caters to California's Chinese-American market, has hired Edward J. Czajka as its chief financial officer.
Mr. Czajka was the CFO of North Valley Bancorp of Redding. He joined North Valley in 2001 and resigned last year.
Before joining North Valley he had been the corporate controller and a vice president for six years at Pacific Capital Bancorp of Santa Barbara.
Most recently he had been the CFO of Presidio Bank, a San Francisco bank currently in organization.
As Preferred Bank's CFO, he succeeded Li Yu, its chairman, president, and chief executive officer. Mr. Yu had held the CFO post on an interim basis since March, when Chris Chan resigned.
Umpqua Bank of Portland, Ore., has hired John Baker as its senior vice president of product strategies.
Mr. Baker, who will also oversee the treasury management division of the $5.5 billion-asset unit of Umpqua Holdings Corp., was a senior vice president and the director of marketing and bank products for West Coast Bank, a $2 billion-asset unit of West Coast Bancorp of Lake Oswego, Ore.
He has 23 years of financial services experience.
Placer Sierra Bancshares Inc. of Sacramento has hired Tom Nations as the chief credit officer of its $1.9 billion-asset Placer Sierra Bank.
Mr. Nations was a senior vice president of the commercial banking support center at Union Bank of California, where he had worked for 25 years.
