NEW ENGLAND
Eastern Bank in Boston has promoted Richard E. Holbrook to chairman and chief executive officer and Robert F. Rivers to president.
Mr. Holbrook joined Eastern in 1996 as its chief financial officer and had been its president since 2001.
As the chairman and CEO, he succeeded Stanley J. Lukowski, who held the posts for 15 years before retiring Dec. 31.
Mr. Rivers joined Eastern in February as its vice chairman and chief banking officer. Before that he had been executive vice president for retail banking at Commercial Federal Bank in Omaha until Bank of the West, a San Francisco unit of BNP Paribas SA, bought it in December.
Before joining Commercial Federal he had held a number of senior positions at M&T Bank Corp. of Buffalo. Eastern has $6.5 billion of assets.
South Shore Co-operative Bank in Weymouth, Mass., has hired Donald P. Gill as its chief executive officer.
He will succeed John J. O'Brien Jr., who will retire this month from the $185 million-asset bank.
Most recently Mr. Gill had been the president and CEO at First National Bank of Ipswich for seven years. He resigned in June.
Before joining First National Bank of Ipswich he had been the chief financial officer at National Bank of Greece in Boston.
South Shore Savings Bank in South Weymouth, Mass., has promoted Christopher Dunn to executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Mr. Dunn joined South Shore Savings in 2001 as senior vice president/senior lending officer. Last year he took on the additional role of chief investment officer.
Founded in 1833, South Shore Savings has $900 million of assets.
MIDWEST
Plymouth Financial Corp. in Michigan has named Raymond A. Reame the interim president and chief executive officer of the company and its $87 million-asset New Liberty Bank in Plymouth.
Mr. Reame has served on Plymouth Financial's board for the last five years. He succeeded Michael D. Weaver, who resigned Dec. 15.
Plymouth Financial said it has formed a search committee to find a successor for Mr. Weaver.
SOUTHEAST
Superior Bancorp of Birmingham, Ala., said Stan Bailey, its chief executive officer, has assumed the additional title of chairman.
Mr. Bailey succeeded James A. Taylor, who retired Dec. 28.
Superior Bancorp is the $2.4 billion-asset holding company for Superior Bank in Birmingham.
WEST
1st Century Bank of Los Angeles has promoted Jason DiNapoli to president and chief operating officer.
He succeeded Richard Cupp, who also stepped down as the chief executive officer when he retired Jan. 2. The $177 million-asset 1st Century said Alan Rothenberg, its chairman, would take the CEO post on an interim basis until a successor is named.
Mr. DiNapoli had led the bank's commercial banking group as an executive vice president. He is one of the members of the management team that organized 1st Century in 2003.
First Republic Bank of San Francisco has hired Terry Guillory as a senior commercial lender.
Ms. Guillory came to the $10.7 billion-asset bank from Mechanics Bank in Oakland, Calif. She had worked at the $2.7 billion-asset Mechanics for 12 years, most recently as a vice president and a senior relationship manager working with small and midsize companies.
She has 25 years of business banking experience.
Redwood Capital Bank of Eureka, Calif., has hired Michael D. McCoy as its risk manager and a vice president.
Mr. McCoy was the compliance manager at Umpqua Bank in Portland, Ore.
He joined the bank in 2004, when Umpqua Holdings Corp. bought Humboldt Bank in Roseville.
Before that he had been the compliance officer for Humboldt for six years.
