MIDWEST
Bank Mutual of Milwaukee has hired Thomas H. Koepp as its director of investment real estate lending.
Mr. Koepp was a first vice president of commercial real estate at St. Francis Bank, a division of the $11.5 billion-asset Mid America Bank of Clarendon Hills, Ill. (Mid America's parent, MAF Bancorp Inc., bought St. Francis Capital Corp. in 2003.)
He has 25 years of investment real estate lending experience.
Bank Mutual is a $3.5 billion-asset unit of Bank Mutual Corp.
SOUTHEASTSouth Carolina Bank and Trust of Orangeburg has promoted Rodney W. Overby to chief information officer and made him an executive vice president.
Mr. Overby had been a vice president and the director of data processing since joining the $1.8 billion-asset unit of SCBT Financial Corp. in 2001.
Before that he had worked various jobs at Wachovia Corp., MainStreet BankGroup Inc., and First Bank of Stuart.
SCBT Financial's other subsidiary, South Carolina Bank and Trust of the Piedmont, has $234 million of assets.
WESTBeverly Hills Bancorp Inc. of Calabasas, Calif., said that Larry B. Faigin, its chairman and chief executive officer, has become the interim president and CEO of its $1.4 billion-asset First Bank of Beverly Hills.
He succeeded Joseph W. Kiley 3rd, who resigned July 1. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission said that Mr. Faigin will remain the head of the bank until a successor is elected.
Redwood Capital Bank of Eureka, Calif., has hired Thomas A. Vander Ploeg as its chief credit officer and Phil Cole as its senior loan officer.
Mr. Vander Ploeg was the chief credit officer of Granite Community Bank, a $131 million-asset bank in Granite Bay.
Mr. Cole was a vice president and a commercial loan officer at Modesto Commerce Bank, a division of 1867 Western Financial Corp. in Stockton.
Each of the men has about 30 years of banking experience.
Redwood Capital has $86 million of assets.
First Republic Bank of San Francisco has hired L. Walter Fleischer and Jim Simpson as managing directors.
Mr. Fleischer was a senior vice president at Greater Bay Bank for the past nine years. Before that he had worked at the old Bank of America for 20 years, rising to a vice presidency in its San Francisco private banking group.
He has 34 years of financial services experience.
Mr. Simpson was a senior vice president and a western regional middle-market manager in the leasing and capital group at Bank of America Corp. He worked for the Charlotte company and its predecessors for 25 years.
The $9.3 billion-asset First Republic is buying the $564 million-asset BWC Financial Corp. of Walnut Creek, Calif. The deal is expected to close next quarter.
