NEW ENGLAND
Commerce Bank and Trust Co. of Worcester, Mass., has hired John S. Kelley as its senior vice president of commercial real estate lending.
Mr. Kelley had been a senior vice president and the chief lending officer of Edgartown National Bank since 2004.
Commerce is a $910 million-asset unit of Commerce Bancshares Corp. of Worcester.
MIDDLE ATLANTICStonebridge Bank of West Chester, Pa., has hired James E. Kirkpatrick as its chief lending officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Kirkpatrick had the same job and title at Leesport Bank. Before joining the Wyomissing bank in 1998, he had been a senior relationship banking specialist at Pennsylvania National Bank.
Stonebridge is a $396 million-asset unit of Stonebridge Financial Corp.
Evans National Bank of Angola, N.Y., has hired Gary A Kajtoch as its chief financial officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. Kajtoch came to the $474 million-asset unit of Evans Bancorp Inc. from M&T Bank of Oakfield, N.Y. He had been the vice president of management accounting for the $685 million-asset M&T, which is partly owned by Allied Irish Banks PLC.
Northfield Bank of Staten Island, N.Y., has hired William Jacobs as controller, Robert Pavics as deputy auditor, and Stephen Hefler as credit administration officer.
Mr. Jacobs was an audit manager of international accounting at KPMG LLP of New York. Mr. Pavics was a senior auditor at Provident Bank of Montebello, and Mr. Hefler was a credit officer and risk management liaison for the specialized lending group in the small-business finance division at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
NYNB Bank, a $140 million-asset unit of Hudson Valley Holding Corp. in the Bronx, N.Y., has hired Robert A. Espaillat as its president and a director.
Since 2002, Mr. Espaillat had been the president and chief executive officer of Accion New York, a microlender with a loan portfolio of $17.1 million.
Before that he had been the director of operations for GreenPath Debt Solutions, a nonprofit credit counseling organization.
Earlier he has been the New York regional manager for Consumer Credit Counseling Service and a financial consultant for Equitable Cos. LLC.
First Commonwealth Financial Corp. of Indiana, Pa., said John J. Dolan would become its president and chief executive officer March 1.
He will succeed Joseph E. O'Dell, who plans to resign from those jobs Feb. 28.
Mr. Dolan, currently an executive vice president, joined First Commonwealth 27 years ago and has been its chief financial officer since 1987.
That job will go to Edward J. Lipkus, who has been the $6.1 billion-asset company's controller since joining it as a senior vice president in August. Before that he had been controller, principal accounting officer, and a first vice president at Valley National Bancorp.
SOUTHEASTCommunity Bancshares Inc. of Orangeburg, S.C., has hired Marcia E. Wilson as a senior vice president and its director of internal audit.
Ms. Wilson joined the $565 million-asset, four-bank holding company after 14 years at South Carolina Bank and Trust. Most recently she had been an audit manager with the SCBT Financial Corp. unit.
WESTAmerican Security Bank of Santa Ana, Calif., has promoted James Roberson to executive vice president.
He remains the manager of the commercial real estate lending division, a job he has held since joining the $496 million-asset unit of America Bancshares Inc. in 2004 as a senior vice president.
Center Financial Corp. of Los Angeles said Patrick Hartman, its chief financial officer and an executive vice president, has submitted his resignation.
He will leave the $1.8 billion-asset company when it files its annual earnings report with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Center Financial said in a press release.
The company also said it would retain the same search firm it used to select its chief executive officer, Jae Whan Yoo, who was hired last month.
