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Peoples Bancorp Inc. of Marietta, Ohio, has promoted Donald J. Landers to chief financial officer, treasurer, and executive vice president of the company and its $1.9 billion-asset Peoples Bank.
He succeeded John W. Conlon, who has retired.
Mr. Landers was a senior vice president and the chief accounting officer for the company, which he joined in 2003 as its controller.
MIDDLE ATLANTICProvident Bank of Montebello, N.Y., has hired Barbara A. Shea as its director of operations and a vice president.
Ms. Shea joined the $2.7 billion-asset bank after 19 years with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and a predecessor, Chase Manhattan Bank. She was most recently a senior vice president and a retail investment manager at JPMorgan Chase.
First Commonwealth Financial Corp. of Indiana, Pa., has hired Edward J. Lipkus 3rd as its controller and principal accounting officer.
Mr. Lipkus, who has also been named a senior vice president, had the same jobs as a first vice president at Valley National Bancorp of Wayne, N.J.
In his 20 years of financial services experience he also has worked at Mellon Investor Services LLC, Commercial Bank of New York (which North Fork Bancorp. Inc. bought in 2001), and Independence Community Bank.
First Commonwealth has $5.9 billion of assets.
SOUTHEASTAlliance Bank of Chantilly, Va., has hired Brian Haggerty as a senior vice president and Robert M. Belch Jr. and Stephen D. Kingsley as vice presidents in its commercial banking division.
Mr. Haggerty was a senior vice president in the technology and government contracting group at SunTrust Bank. Before joining the Atlanta bank in 1998, he had held a similar job for nine years at Signet Bank, which First Union Corp., now Wachovia Corp., bought in 1997.
Mr. Belch was a vice president, a commercial lender, and a business developer at James Monroe Bank of Arlington, Va.
Mr. Kingsley was a commercial loan portfolio manager at BB&T Corp.
