NEW ENGLAND
Enterprise Bancorp Inc. of Lowell, Mass., said Jack Clancy would succeed George Duncan as the chief executive officer of the company and its $972 million-asset Enterprise Bank and Trust Co. on Jan. 1.
Mr. Duncan will remain the chairman of the company and the bank.
Mr. Clancy is the chief operating officer of the company and the bank. Before that he had been the chief financial officer of both.
He joined the bank when it was formed in 1988 and has also held the treasurer and chief investment officer jobs there.
MIDWESTMidwest Banc Holdings Inc. of Melrose Park, Ill., has hired Donald L. Wiest 2d as its chief investment officer and an executive vice president.
Before joining the $2.3 billion-asset parent of Midwest Bank and Trust Co., Mr. Wiest had the same job and title at Waypoint Bank of Harrisburg, Pa.
Earlier he had been a trust and private asset manager at Mellon Bank.
He has 25 years of experience in individual and corporate portfolio management.
Advantage Bank of Cambridge, Ohio, has hired James W. Chugg as its director of human resources.
Mr. Chugg has also been named an assistant vice president for the $1.1 billion-asset unit of Camco Financial Corp. He was the senior manager of human resources at Rea & Associates Inc., an accounting firm in New Philadelphia.
MIDDLE ATLANTICState Bancorp Inc. of New Hyde Park, N.Y., has hired Thomas M. O'Brien as the president of the company and its $1.6 billion-asset State Bank of Long Island.
The company also said Mr. O'Brien would succeed Thomas F. Goldrick Jr. as the chief executive officer of the company and the bank in December of next year. Mr. Goldrick will remain the chairman of both.
Since 2000, Mr. O'Brien had been the president and CEO of Atlantic Bank of New York, which New York Community Bancorp Inc. bought in April from National Bank of Greece.
Before that he had been a vice chairman and a director of North Fork Bancorp. Inc. He joined the Melville, N.Y., company in 1996 when it bought North Side Savings Bank. He began his banking career at North Side in 1977 and had risen to CEO.
EagleBank of Bethesda, Md., has hired Malcolm S. Karl as the head of its nonprofit banking group.
For 24 years until his retirement in 2005, Mr. Karl had been the chief financial officer and a senior vice president of the American Society of Association Executives and its Center for Association Leadership. Both are Washington nonprofits.
Before that he had been an associate director and the comptroller of the Federal Bar Association.
EagleBank is a $749 million-asset unit of Eagle Bancorp Inc.
SOUTHEASTAmeris Bank of Moultrie, Ga., has hired Richard Sturm and put him in charge of operations in western South Carolina.
Mr. Sturm was the executive in charge of Beaufort County for South Carolina Bank and Trust.
Ameris Bank is a $2 billion-asset unit of Ameris Bancorp.
WESTPacific Commerce Bank of Los Angeles has hired Richard Koh as its chief financial officer.
Before joining the $78 million-asset Pacific Commerce, Mr. Koh led the accounting department bank at Center Bank, a $1.7 billion-asset unit of Center Financial Corp. of Los Angeles.
