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Mercantile Trust and Savings Bank of Quincy, Ill., said H. Blaine Stock 3rd would join the bank Monday as a director and would become its president March 1.
He will succeed Ted T. Awekamp, who is slated to become the president and chief executive officer of the $606 million-asset bank's parent, Mercantile Bancorp Inc. (Mercantile Trust is one of seven banks majority-owned by the $1.4 billion-asset Mercantile Bancorp.)
Mr. Stock had been the senior community president for southern Illinois at Regions Bank. He joined the Regions Financial Corp. unit in 2004, when it bought Union Planters Corp. Before that he had worked at Union Planters Bank since 1989.
MIDDLE ATLANTICACNB Corp. of Gettysburg, Pa., has promoted David W. Cathell to senior vice president and chief financial officer of the company and its $952 million-asset Adams County National Bank.
Mr. Cathell had been a first vice president and the principal financial officer of the company and the bank since joining them in March.
Before that he had been the CFO of Fulton Bancshares Corp. and its Fulton County National Bank and Trust of McConnellsburg. (Franklin Financial Services Corp. of Chambersburg bought Fulton Bancshares in July.)
Earlier he had been the CFO of Pennsylvania State Bank for five years and, before that, the controller of Keystone Financial Inc., which M&T Bank Corp. bought in 2000.
Republic First Bancorp Inc. of Philadelphia has named Louis J. DeCesare its president and chief operating officer.
Mr. DeCesare was the chief lending officer of its $979 million-asset Republic First Bank.
He joined the bank five years ago. Before that he had been the vice president of commercial lending at Commonwealth Bank and, earlier, a regional vice president at Commerce Bank.
SOUTHEASTBankAtlantic Bancorp of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has named Jarett S. Levan the president of the company and the chief executive officer of its $6.2 billion-asset BankAtlantic.
He succeeded his father, Alan B. Levan, who will remain the CEO of the company and the chairman of the company and the bank.
Jarett Levan will remain the president of the bank, a job he was given in 2005. Before that he had been the bank's chief marketing officer.
Since joining the bank full time in 1998 he has also been its director of alternative delivery, the manager of investor relations, and its legal counsel.
WESTBanner Corp. of Walla Walla, Wash., has named Michael K. Larsen the president of the mortgage division at its $3.4 billion-asset Banner Bank.
Mr. Larsen will remain the bank's chief real estate lending officer, a job he has had since 1985. He joined the bank four years earlier as the manager of its residential loan department.
Central Pacific Bank of Honolulu has promoted Curtis W. Chinn to chief risk officer, a newly created job.
Mr. Chinn, who will remain an executive vice president, had been the chief credit officer of the $5.4 billion-asset unit of Central Pacific Financial Corp.
He joined the bank in 2003 as a senior vice president and the commercial banking division manager of its financial services group.
Earlier he had worked at Silicon Valley Bank as a senior vice president in its specialty finance division and at Bank of Hawaii as a senior vice president and a manager of its insurance services division.
