MIDDLE ATLANTIC
State Bancorp Inc. of New Hyde Park, N.Y., has named Thomas M. O'Brien the chief executive officer of the company and its $1.8 billion-asset State Bank of Long Island.
He succeeded Thomas F. Goldrick, who resigned from those posts but will remain the company's chairman. Mr. Goldrick initially planned to leave the CEO jobs at the end of this year, and Mr. O'Brien was supposed to succeed him then.
Mr. O'Brien was hired in November as the president, chief operating officer, and CEO-designate of the company and the bank. He will keep the president jobs but drop the chief operating titles.
Before joining State Bancorp he had been the president and CEO of Atlantic Bank of New York, which New York Community Bancorp Inc. bought last year from National Bank of Greece.
Earlier he had been a vice chairman and a director of North Fork Bancorp. Inc. He joined the Melville company in 1996, when it bought North Side Savings Bank. He began his banking career at North Side in 1977 and had risen to CEO.
Amalgamated Bank of New York has hired Thomas A. Cahalan as its chief operating officer.
He joined the $4.5 billion-asset bank from North Fork Bank, where he had been a senior vice president and its chief administrative officer.
SOUTHEASTCitizens South Bank of Gastonia, N.C., has hired James L. Brewer as its Union County executive and a senior vice president.
Mr. Brewer came to the $738 million-asset bank from SunTrust Bank, where he had been a first vice president and its Union County community banking manager.
Power Financial Credit Union of Pembroke Pines, Fla., has promoted Allan M. Prindle to president and chief executive officer.
He succeeded Henry M. Prior, who retired last month.
Mr. Prindle had been an executive vice president and the chief operating officer of the $500 million-asset credit union since last year.
WESTSVB Financial Group of Santa Clara, Calif., said Michael Descheneaux would become its chief financial officer on April 30.
He will succeed Jack Jenkins-Stark, who is resigning to become the CFO of BrightSource Energy Inc.
Mr. Descheneaux is SVB's managing director of accounting and financial reporting. He joined the company in November, a year after he began consulting for them.
SVB owns the $5.7 billion-asset Silicon Valley Bank.
Pinnacle Bank of Morgan Hill, Calif., has hired Robert C. Blatter as its chief credit officer and an executive vice president.
He was a senior vice president and loan administrator at the $1.25 billion-asset Community Bank of Central California in Salinas. Its parent, Central Coast Bancorp, sold itself to Rabobank Group last year.
Earlier he had been a loan officer at Bank of Salinas, which merged with Cypress Bank in 1999 to form Community Bank of Central California.
Pinnacle Bank has $48 million of assets.
