MIDDLE ATLANTIC
First Bank of Delaware in Wilmington has promoted Alonzo J. Primus to president and chief operating officer.
Mr. Primus was the executive vice president of the $112 million-asset bank's national consumer products division.
Before that he had been the senior vice president of finance and human resources and the chief accounting officer for the bank and its former parent company, Republic First Bancorp Inc., which spun off First Bank of Delaware last year.
Flushing Financial Corp. of New York has named Francis Korzekwinski its head of real estate lending and promoted him from senior to executive vice president.
He remains the head of the commercial real estate department. He joined the $2.7 billion-asset unit of Flushing Financial Corp. in 1993 as an assistant vice president.
SOUTHEAST
Bank of Florida Corp., a Naples company that had been named Bancshares of Florida Inc. until Dec. 18, has given Craig D. Sherman, its chief lending officer and an executive vice president, an additional job.
Mr. Sherman is now also the president and chief executive officer of one of the $850 million-asset company's three banks, Bank of Florida-Southwest.
He joined the bank when it opened in 1999 as its executive vice president of commercial lending.
SOUTHWEST
Iberiabank Corp. of Lafayette, La., has promoted Anthony Restel from executive vice president to senior executive vice president and given him the additional job of chief credit officer.
He will remain the chief financial officer of the company, which owns the $3.1 billion-asset Iberiabank. He joined the parent company in 2001 as its treasurer and a vice president.
Before that he had been a vice president of the energy and utilities group and a commercial lending officer in Louisiana for Bank One Corp., now part of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
He began his banking career as a member of the corporate banking team in the energy group at New Orleans' First National Bank of Commerce, which Bank One bought in 1998.
WEST
FNB Bancorp of South San Francisco has hired Dave Curtis as the chief financial officer of the company and its $600 million-asset First National Bank of Northern California. He succeeded Jim Ramsey, who has retired.
Mr. Curtis was a senior vice president and the controller of Capital Corp of the West, the parent company of the $1.9 billion-asset County Bank of Merced, Calif.
