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Huron Valley Bank of Milford, Mich., has hired Jack J. Shubitowski as its president and chief executive officer.
He joined the two-year-old, $28 million-asset bank from Citizens Bank of Flint. He was a senior vice president and a senior banker in charge of business development and a portfolio of top-tier loan and deposit clients for the $7.5 billion-asset Citizens. Before that he had been its commercial business manager for Saginaw and Midland counties.
Earlier he had been a vice president and a team leader in the public funds group for the eastern Michigan region at Fifth Third Bank.
Before that he had been the chief operating officer and an executive vice president of Clarkston State Bank, whose parent, Clarkston Financial Corp., owns a majority stake in Huron Valley.
Mr. Shubitowski began his banking career in 1986 as a management trainee at First Federal of Michigan, which Charter One Financial Inc., now a part of Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, bought in 1995.
First Financial Bancorp of Hamilton, Ohio, has hired Terry Monahan as the chief investment officer of its investment unit.
Mr. Monahan came to First Financial Capital Advisors LLC from the asset management group at Huntington National Bank, where he had been the managing director and senior portfolio manager to six of its alternative investment strategies, including the Columbus bank's first hedge fund.
His 12-year career in managing fiduciary accounts began as an equity trader in the mutual funds division at Fidelity Investments.
First Financial Bancorp owns the $3.3 billion-asset First Financial Bank.
MIDDLE ATLANTICWSFS Financial Corp. of Wilmington, Del., has promoted Barbara J. Fischer to chief administrative officer and made her an executive vice president.
She remains in charge of operations and technology for the parent company of the $3 billion-asset Wilmington Savings Fund Society. She joined the banking unit in 2001 as its chief technology officer.
SOUTHEASTCarolina National Bank and Trust Co. of Columbia, S.C., has made Brooke Moore its commercial bank executive.
He will report to Jack McElveen Jr., the chief operating officer for the $209 million-asset unit of Carolina National Corp.
Mr. Moore, who remains a senior vice president, had been a commercial relationship manager since the bank opened in 2002. Before that he had been a vice president of commercial lending at Carolina First Bank of Greenville.
BankUnited Financial Corp. of Coral Gables, Fla., has promoted Carlos Fernandez-Guzman, Jim Foster, and Abel Inglesias to senior executive vice presidents.
All three will retain their current jobs. Mr. Fernandez-Guzman, who joined the $13.8 billion-asset company in 2003, is the head of the consumer banking division; Mr. Foster, who joined two years ago, is the head of corporate finance; and Mr. Inglesias, a four-year veteran, is the head of commercial banking.
WESTCommunity Bancorp, a two-bank, $1.6 billion-asset company in Las Vegas, has hired Patrick Hartman as its chief financial officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Hartman had been the CFO for Center Financial Corp. of Los Angeles and its Center Bank for the past two years.
From 1992 to 1997 he had held CFO jobs at three Los Angeles banks: Community Bank, Cenfed Bank, and California United Bank.
After that he had founded Alpha Consulting Group, which provided management services and network support to companies with technology problems.
