NEW ENGLAND
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc. of Pittsfield, Mass., has hired Kevin R. Riley, a veteran KeyCorp executive, as the chief financial officer and treasurer of the company and its $2.1 billion-asset Berkshire Bank.
Mr. Riley is currently KeyCorp's executive vice president for client information and relationship management. He will join Berkshire as an executive vice president Aug. 1.
He spent 21 years at KeyCorp and a predecessor company with the same name. (Society Corp. bought the old KeyCorp, of Albany, N.Y., and took its name.) He had been the CFO of KeyBank from 1996 to 2002.
Mr. Riley's father, Victor, was the CEO of the old KeyCorp when Society bought it.
MIDDLE ATLANTICSaddle River Valley Bank of New Jersey has promoted William E. Arnold to president and chief executive officer.
He succeeded Laurence D. Haggerty, who was named the $17 million-asset bank's vice chairman.
Mr. Arnold joined the bank last year as its chief credit officer and a senior vice president.
Greater Buffalo Savings Bank, a unit of Great Lakes Bancorp Inc. of Buffalo, has hired Peter B. Babiarz as its chief credit officer and promoted Robert McKnight to chief lending officer.
Both have also been named executive vice presidents at the $805 million-asset savings bank.
Mr. Babiarz was a senior vice president and a senior credit administrator at HSBC Bank USA, where he had worked for 22 years. Mr. McKnight was the senior vice president of commercial and industrial lending for Greater Buffalo Savings, which he joined in 2005. Before that he had worked at HSBC for 34 years.
MIDWESTFNBH Bancorp Inc. of Howell, Mich., has hired Steve Walsh as the president and chief executive officer of the company and its $474 million-asset First National Bank in Howell.
He will begin his jobs Monday.
Mr. Walsh was the chief financial officer of Fifth Third Bancorp's consumer bank.
SOUTHEASTFreedom Bank of Virginia in Fairfax has hired Craig S. Underhill as its chief lending officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Underhill joined the $74 million-asset bank from Potomac Bank of Virginia, where he had the same job.
Before that he had held various lending jobs at Central Fidelity Bank and Allfirst Bank.
WESTFirst Federal Bank of California in Santa Monica has named Shannon Millard the president of its retail banking division.
Ms. Millard, who remains an executive vice president of the $9.3 billion-asset bank, had been the president of the real estate lending division since last year. Before that she had led the bank's income property lending group and, earlier, its residential wholesale lending division.
