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Taylor Capital Group Inc. of Chicago has promoted Robin VanCastle to chief financial officer and named her to its executive management committee.
Ms. VanCastle, a 16-year veteran of Taylor Capital, had been its chief accounting officer.
Taylor Capital owns the $3.4 billion-asset Cole Taylor Bank.
Citizens Republic Bancorp of Flint, Mich., said Dana M. Cluckey, its president and chief operating officer, would leave the $13.3 billion-asset company at the end of the month.
Mr. Cluckey has held those jobs since December, when Citizens Banking Corp. bought Republic Bancorp Inc. and renamed itself. Before that he had been the president and chief executive officer of Republic Bancorp for seven years.
William R. Hartman, Citizens Republic's CEO, will succeed Mr. Cluckey as its president. The company said it had no plans to fill the chief operating officer post.
Independent Bank Corp., a $3.4 billion-asset, four-bank company in Ionia, Mich., has hired Stefanie Kimball as its executive vice president of commercial lending.
Ms. Kimball was a senior vice president of credit strategies and solutions at Comerica Inc. of Detroit. She has 25 years of banking experience.
Park National Corp. of Newark, Ohio, has hired Brady T. Burt as the chief accounting officer of the company and its $2 billion-asset Park National Bank.
Mr. Burt was an executive vice president and the chief financial officer of Vail Banks Inc. and its $721 million-asset WestStar Bank in Colorado.
Before that he had been the director of internal audit at Vail Banks, which U.S. Bancorp bought in September.
Park National has $6.3 billion of assets and owns 10 banks.
SOUTHEASTGB&T Bancshares Inc. of Gainesville, Ga., has hired Derek T. Watkins as the president and chief executive officer of its newly formed mortgage unit.
Mr. Watkins joined GB&T Mortgage from Flag Bank of Atlanta, which Royal Bank of Canada bought in December and merged into RBC Centura Bank. He had been the president of Flag Bank's mortgage division.
Before that he had been the president of Riverside Residential Lending Inc. and an executive vice president of its immediate parent, Riverside Bank (The Marietta, Ga., bank was merged into Bank of North Georgia when its parent, Riverside Bancshares Inc., sold itself to Synovus Financial Corp. last year.)
Earlier Mr. Watkins had been the president of the mortgage division at Century South Bank, which BB&T Corp. bought in 2001.
GB&T Bancshares has $1.9 billion of assets and owns seven banks.
Florida Bank Group Inc., a $557 million-asset, three-bank holding company in Tampa, has hired Corey J. Coughlin as its chief executive officer.
Mr. Coughlin was the president and CEO of First State Financial Inc., which owns the $453 million-asset First State Bank of Sarasota.
Before that he had been the president and chief operating officer of CNB National Bank and, earlier, the president and CEO of First Bancshares Inc.
