MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Signature Bank of New York has hired Vincenzo Iannucci as an investment group director and a vice president at its broker-dealer unit, Signature Securities Group Corp.
Mr. Iannucci was a financial adviser at Chase Investment Services Corp., a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co., for the past three years. Before that he had worked for 11 years at Citigroup Inc.
He has 16 years of financial services experience.
Signature Bank has $4.7 billion of assets.
SOUTHEASTRegent Bank of Davie, Fla., has named Neill LeCorgne its president.
He will remain the chief operating officer, a job he has had since joining the $236 million-asset unit of Regent Bancorp Inc. last year as an executive vice president.
Before that he had been a marketing team manager for 14 years at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. Earlier he had worked in the south Florida corporate banking divisions of First Union Corp. and Florida National Bank, which First Union bought in 1990.
Mr. LeCorgne has 22 years of banking experience.
Bank of Hampton Roads of Norfolk, Va., has hired Lynn K. Pierce as a senior vice president and senior lending officer.
Mr. Pierce joined the $411 million-asset unit of Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc. from Resource Bank, where he had been a senior vice president and the city executive for Chesapeake.
Before that he had worked at Central Fidelity Bank until 1998, when the old Wachovia Corp. bought it.
He has 30 years of bank management and lending experience.
WESTWashington Trust Bank of Spokane has hired Linda Williams as a senior vice president and its private banking team leader for Oregon.
Ms. Williams was a senior vice president and a regional private banking manager at U.S Trust Corp. in Portland for the past seven years. Before that she had managed the Oregon commercial real estate operations for Key Bank.
Earlier she had been a commercial banking executive at Wells Fargo Bank and, earlier, at First Interstate Bank, which Wells bought in 1996.
Washington Trust Bank is a $3 billion-asset unit of W.T.B. Financial Corp.
Centennial Bank Holdings Inc. of Denver has hired Margaret d'Emery as the executive vice president of deposit services for the company and two of its three banking units, Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. and Centennial Bank of the West.
Ms. d'Emery was the manager of deposit services for the commercial real estate division at U.S. Bank, where she had worked for 21 years.
The $2.9 billion-asset Centennial Bank Holdings' other unit is Collegiate Peaks Bank.
First Republic Bank of San Francisco has hired Greg Linvill as its head of business banking.
Mr. Linvill, who also has been named a senior vice president and a member of the $10.4 billion-asset bank's senior management team, was a senior vice president and senior credit administrator at City National Bank of Los Angeles.
Earlier he had worked at Bay View Capital Corp., Silicon Valley Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank.
Legacy Bank of Campbell, Calif., has hired Kim Chavez as a senior vice president and its loan operations manager.
Ms. Chavez was an internal bank auditor at Heritage Bank of Commerce of San Jose. Before that she had been the president of Kim Kumparak Consulting Inc. for 10 years.
Legacy has $83 million of assets.
