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UMB Financial Corp., a $7.7 billion-asset, multibank holding company in Kansas City, Mo., has hired Clyde Wendel as its managing director of private banking and the president of its UMB Asset Management.
He has also been nominated as a vice chairman of the $6.5 billion-asset UMB Bank, one of five banking units that share the UMB name.
Mr. Wendel was the Kansas City president for Bank of America Corp.'s private bank. He has 36 years of banking and financial services experience.
Wintrust Financial Corp., an $8.5 billion-asset, 15-bank holding company in Lake Forest, Ill., has hired Thomas P. Zidar as an executive vice president and its wealth management market head.
He has also been named the chairman of three nonbanking units of Wintrust: Wayne Hummer Investments LLC, Wayne Hummer Asset Management Co., and Wayne Hummer Trust Co.
Mr. Zidar was an executive vice president in charge of five business units in the personal financial services group at LaSalle Bank. He had also been the chairman of its financial services group. He had worked at LaSalle and its parent company, ABN Amro Holding NV, since 1997.
MIDDLE ATLANTICVSB Bancorp Inc. of Staten Island, N.Y., has named Raffaele Branca to succeed Merton Corn as the president and chief executive officer of the company and its $220 million-asset Victory State Bank when Mr. Corn retires at the end of next year.
Mr. Branca, an executive vice president, has been the chief financial officer and the chief operating officer of the company and the bank for the past nine years.
Before that he had been a vice president of finance and investments at River Bank America. Earlier he had held the same job at Hamilton Bancorp Inc.
Bay National Corp. of Baltimore has hired Richard C. Springer as an executive vice president and the head of commercial and private banking at its $217 million-asset Bay National Bank.
Mr. Springer was a senior vice president and the Baltimore area executive for Branch Banking and Trust Co. He has 25 years of commercial banking experience.
WESTFirst Bank of Beverly Hills of Calabasas, Calif., has promoted Annette J. Vecchio to chief credit officer and made her an executive vice president.
Ms. Vecchio, who joined the $1.4 billion-asset unit of Beverly Hills Bancorp Inc. in 1985, was a portfolio manager and a senior vice president.
North Bay Bancorp of Napa, Calif., said Michael Wengel would become its chief financial officer June 19.
He will succeed Patrick Phelan, who is leaving the company but will remain for a month to help with the transition.
Mr. Wengel was a senior manager at KPMG LLP and had been involved with the yearend 2004 and 2005 independent financial audits it conducted for North Bay.
His new company owns the $611 million-asset Vintage Bank.
Silver State Bancorp of Henderson, Nev., has hired Kirk Viau as its chief risk officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. Viau joined the company, which owns the $872 million-asset Silver State Bank, from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., where he had been a senior bank examiner.
At the FDIC he led safety-and-soundness examinations for various financial institution in Arizona and Nevada.
