MIDDLE ATLANTIC
WSFS Financial Corp. of Wilmington, Del., has hired Rodger Levenson as its head of commercial banking and an executive vice president.
He succeeded Karl L. Johnston, who has retired.
Mr. Levenson was a senior vice president and a manager at Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He had led business, commercial, and specialized banking teams at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC unit.
WSFS Financial has $3 billion of assets.
SOUTHEASTFirst Charter Corp. of Charlotte has hired Sheila Stoke as its principal accounting officer and controller and Richard Passerine as its director of quantitative risk analysis.
Both have been named senior vice presidents.
Ms. Stoke was the senior vice president of finance at S.Y. Bancorp Inc. of Louisville. Before that she had been the controller and a senior vice president at Integra Bank of Evansville, Ind.
Earlier she had held controller jobs at Branch Banking and Trust Co. and Republic Bank and Trust Co.
Mr. Passerine was a vice president and the director of asset and liability management at Integra. Before that he had been the financial risk manager at RBC Centura Bank, a Rocky Mount, N.C., unit of Royal Bank of Canada.
Earlier he had been the senior risk analyst at two Denver banks: CoBank ACB, an agricultural credit bank that is part of the Farm Credit System, and Bank Western.
First Charter Corp. is the $4.9 billion-asset parent of First Charter Bank.
R-G Crown Bank of Casselberry, Fla., has promoted Rafael Saldana to president.
Mr. Saldana joined the $3.2 billion-asset unit of R&G Financial Corp. of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in September as its business director and an executive vice president.
From 2004 to March 2006 he worked at another R&G Financial unit, R-G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, as the managing director of its international division. (R&G said in a press release Mr. Saldana took a six-month break in between jobs.)
Earlier he worked twice with Banco Santander as an executive vice president and commercial director in San Juan, first from 1990 to 1996 and then again from 2003 to 2004. In between he had been a business director at Capital One Financial Corp., a senior vice president at Fleet Financial Corp., and a senior vice president and group executive for the old Wachovia Corp.
SOUTHWESTViewPoint Bank of Plano, Tex., has hired Frank J. Briggs as its senior vice president of business banking.
Mr. Briggs joined the $1.5 billion-asset bank from JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he was the north Texas area manager of business banking. Before that he had been a business banker at Bank One Corp., which JPMorgan Chase bought in 2004.
He has 30 years of banking experience.
WESTCitizens Business Bank of Ontario, Calif., has hired Anthony Q. Evans as the executive vice president of its newly formed service division.
Mr. Evans joined the $6 billion-asset unit of CVB Financial Corp. from Mellon 1st Business Bank, where he had been an executive vice president and the chief operations officer.
Before that he had been a senior vice president at Community Bank and the director of operations for its 15 branches in Los Angeles.
Community Bank of Nevada in Las Vegas has named Larry Scott its chief executive officer.
Mr. Scott will remain the president for the $1 billion-asset unit of Community Bancorp, which he joined four years ago. He will step down as its chief operating officer.
That job has gone to Bruce Ford, who will remain the bank's chief credit officer and an executive vice president.
Before joining Community Bank he had been a senior regional credit officer at Wells Fargo & Co. and, before that, at First Security Bank of Nevada, which Wells bought in 2001.
Community Bank also has promoted Joyce Smith to executive vice president and named her its chief retail banking officer. She was a senior vice president and the retail manager for Nevada.
Before that she had been a vice president and a Nevada district manager at Wells.
