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American Community Bancorp of Evansville, Ind., has hired Michael A. Elliot as the chief financial officer, the secretary, and a senior vice president of the company and its $228 million-asset Bank of Evansville.
Mr. Elliot was the CFO and treasurer for Anchor Industries Inc., a tent and fabric manufacturer in Evansville. Earlier he had been the CFO of Atlas Minerals Inc. and the manager of the accounting services division at Geo. S. Olive & Co. LLC, an Indianapolis accounting firm.
He has 25 years of financial, operational, and strategic planning experience.
MIDDLE ATLANTICBCSB Bankcorp Inc. of Baltimore said Joseph J. Bouffard would become the president and chief executive officer of the company and its $801 million-asset Baltimore County Savings Bank "on or about" Dec. 4.
He also will be given those titles at Baltimore County Savings Bank MHC, the mutual holding company that owns 63.5% of BCSB Bankcorp.
Mr. Bouffard had been the president and CEO of Patapsco Bancorp Inc. and its $228 million-asset Patapsco Bank of Baltimore since 1995.
Before that he had been a senior vice president at First Fidelity Bank and, earlier, at Savings Bank of Baltimore, which First Fidelity Bancorp. bought in 1994.
Earlier he had been the president of Municipal Savings Bank of Towson, Md.
WSFS Financial Corp. of Wilmington, Del., has hired Patricia Kauker as a vice president and the head of its newly created reverse mortgage business.
She joined the $3 billion-asset bank holding company for Wilmington Savings Fund Society from AIG Federal Savings Bank of Wilmington. She had led the reverse mortgage business for the $1.2 billion-asset unit of American International Group Inc.
SOUTHEASTGreenville First Bancshares Inc. of South Carolina has hired F. Justin Strickland as the president of the company and its $453 million-asset Greenville First Bank.
He succeeded R. Arthur Seaver Jr., who will remain the chief executive officer of the company and the bank. He had been the president of both since their inception in 1999.
For the last seven years Mr. Strickland had been the Midlands market president for Carolina First Bank.
He has 20 years of banking experience.
Ameris Bancorp of Moultrie, Ga., has hired Marc Bogan as the coastal region executive for its $2 billion-asset Ameris Bank.
He will oversee the bank's operations along the South Carolina coast, as well as Ameris Bancorp's acquisition of Islands Community Bank of Beaufort, S.C. That deal is expected to close this quarter.
Mr. Bogan was a sales executive at South Carolina Bank and Trust.
New Century Bancorp Inc. of Dunn, N.C., has made William L. Hedgepeth an executive vice president and the chief operating officer for its New Century Bank, the larger of the $544 million-asset company's two banking units.
He will remain the president and chief executive officer of the other unit, New Century Bank South. He has held those jobs since joining the company in 2004.
Before that he had been an area executive at First South Bank of Washington, N.C. He has 23 years of banking experience.
WESTVineyard Bank of Corona, Calif., has hired Chris Walsh as an executive vice president and its chief banking officer.
Mr. Walsh came to the $2.2 billion-asset unit of Vineyard National Bancorp from Commercial Capital Bank of Irvine. He had been the head of relationship banking and an executive vice president at the $5.7 billion-asset Commercial Capital, which Washington Mutual Bank bought in October.
In his 25 years of southern California banking experience he also has been the president of Sunwest Bank of Tustin and has held various senior management jobs at California Bank and Trust, U.S. Trust, and Bank of California.
San Diego Trust Bank said that Michael Perry would succeed Larry Willette as its chairman Jan. 2.
Mr. Perry will remain the $90 million-asset bank's president and chief executive officer, jobs he has had since he helped found the bank in 2003.
Mr. Willette, who came out of retirement to chair the bank through its start-up period, will become its chairman emeritus.
