NEW ENGLAND
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc. of Pittsfield, Mass., has named Michael J. Oleksak an executive vice president of commercial banking at its $2.2 billon-asset Berkshire Bank.
Mr. Oleksak will remain the regional president of the bank's Pioneer Valley operations, a job he has had since joining the bank in February.
Before that he had been a senior vice president and a co-regional executive of western Massachusetts for TD Banknorth Inc.
In his 26-year banking career he also has had jobs at Fleet Bank, which Bank of America Corp. bought in 2004, and Shawmut Bank, which Fleet Financial Group Inc. bought in 1995.
Berkshire Bank also has hired Sean A. Gray as a first vice president of retail banking.
Mr. Gray was a vice president and a consumer market manager at Bank of America in Waltham, managing 320 employees in 31 branches.
Before that he had been a branch manager at Citizens Bank.
MIDWESTMercantile Bancorp Inc., a $1.4 billion-asset multibank holding company in Quincy, Ill., has promoted Michael P McGrath and Daniel J. Cook from senior to executive vice president.
Mr. McGrath remains the company's chief financial officer, a job he has had since 2001, and its treasurer. Before that he had been the controller of its Mercantile Trust and Savings Bank.
Mr. Cook remains in charge of Mercantile Bancorp's investment portfolio, a job he was given in 2005. He joined Mercantile Trust and Savings in 1994 as its senior vice president of investments.
Mid-South Savings Bank of Salem, Ind., said Stephen H. Walls, its president and chief executive officer, has resigned for health reasons.
Paul G. Allemeier, the $159 million-asset bank's chairman, has succeeded him on an interim basis.
Mr. Walls joined the bank in 1995 as its secretary and a senior vice president and became its president and CEO five years later.
River Valley Financial Bank of Madison, Ind., said Vickie Grimes would become its senior accounting officer May 1, succeeding Larry C. Fouse, who will retire.
Ms. Grimes is the controller of the $333 million-asset River Valley, which she joined in 2000.
MIDDLE ATLANTICEnterprise National Bank N.J. of Kenilworth has hired Donald J. Haake as its president and chief executive officer.
He will join the $68 million-asset bank from North Fork Bank, where he oversaw a 78 branch-network in New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y., as a senior vice president and a division executive.
Before that he had been the president and chief operating officer of Bcpbank of Newark.
SOUTHWESTFirst Financial Bankshares Inc. of Abilene, Tex., has hired Eric Thompson as its vice president of training and education, a newly created job.
Mr. Thompson was the corporate training manager at Summit Bank, a $1.1 billion-asset Fort Worth bank whose parent, Summit Bancshares Inc., was bought by Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. of San Antonio last month.
Before joining Summit Bank he had been a vice president and a performance improvement manager at Bank of America in Dallas.
First Financial has $2.7 billion of assets and owns 10 banks.
WESTColumbia River Bank of The Dalles, Ore., has promoted Robert V. Card to director of risk management and has hired Christine Herb as its chief information officer.
Both have also been named executive vice presidents.
Mr. Card was the auditing department manager and a senior vice president for the $982 million-asset unit of Columbia Bancorp. In eight years with the bank he has also been a commercial loan officer and a credit review officer.
Earlier he had done two tours at U.S. Bank, working at West One Bank, Oregon in between.
Ms. Herb was the director of information technology applications at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. in Portland.
Before that she had been a merger project manager at for the grocery chain Kroger Inc. and its Fred Meyer unit.
