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ShoreBank Corp. of Chicago has hired William M. Dewey 3rd as the head of its international advisory subsidiary's Chicago operations.
Mr. Dewey, who has also been named a vice president at ShoreBank International Ltd., came to the unit from A.T. Kearney Inc. of Chicago. He had been a director for the consulting firm in Prague. Earlier he had managed its financial institutions practices in Beijing and in Central and Eastern Europe.
He began his banking career in 1974 at Citibank in Singapore. Later he had various banking jobs in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and North America. After that he had been a senior adviser in Hungary and the Czech Republic for the Treasury Department.
ShoreBank Corp. has $2.1 billion of assets.
SOUTHEASTCommunity Bankshares Inc. of Orangeburg, S.C., has hired Jason Starnes as its chief information officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Starnes was a director of data delivery at South Financial Group Inc. of Greenville.
Community Bancshares owns the $576 million-asset Community Resource Bank.
WESTUmpqua Holdings Corp. of Portland, Ore., has promoted Dan Sullivan to the newly created job of executive vice president of strategic initiatives.
He will oversee the $8 billion-asset company's acquisition integrations, its real estate property division, and its retail brokerage unit, Strand, Atkinson, Williams & York Inc.
Mr. Sullivan had been Umpqua's chief financial officer since joining the company in 1999. The duties of that job will be split between Neal McLaughlin, Umpqua's controller, and Ron Farnsworth, its senior vice president of financial integrity, until a permanent successor is named.
Bridge Bank, a $721 million-asset unit of San Jose's Bridge Capital Holdings, has hired Marie Hook as a senior vice president and the manager of its Santa Clara County construction group.
Ms. Hook was a senior vice president and a real estate manager at Pinnacle Bank, which opened in July in Gilroy. Before that she had been a senior vice president and a construction loan officer at Heritage Bank of Commerce of San Jose.
Earlier she had worked for 20 years at San Jose National Bank, most recently as a senior vice president and a real estate loan manager. (San Jose National was merged by its parent company, Greater Bay Bancorp, into Santa Clara Valley National Bank in August; Wells Fargo & Co. is buying Greater Bay.)
TriCo Bancshares of Chico, Calif., has hired Daniel K. Bailey as the executive vice president of retail banking at its $1.9 billion-asset Tri Counties Bank.
Mr. Bailey, who will join the bank Tuesday, also has been named to the parent company's executive management team.
He had worked at Wells Fargo Bank since 1991, most recently as a senior vice president and a regional initiatives manager in Sacramento.
Pacific Coast National Bank of San Clemente, Calif., has hired David L. Adams as an executive vice president and the head of its real estate industries group.
Mr. Adams had been the income property group manager at Vineyard Bank since 2000.
Pacific Coast National has $56 million of assets.
Sterling Savings Bank of Spokane has hired Greg Seibly as its chief production executive and named Deborah Meekins its retail banking director.
Mr. Seibly joined the $9.6 billion-asset unit of Sterling Financial Corp. from U.S. Bank, where he was president of California operations.
Before joining the Minneapolis bank in 2004 he had been an executive vice president and a division manager at Wells Fargo Bank. Earlier he had been a managing director and the head of health-care credit products in Los Angeles for Bank of America. Still earlier he had worked a variety of jobs at ABN Amro Bank and PNC Bank.
Ms. Meekins, the new retail head at Sterling Savings, joined the bank in March, when its parent bought Sonoma National Bank, where she had been the president and chief executive officer. She worked at Sonoma National for 30 years, leading it for the last 22.
Sterling Financial also owns the $309 million-asset Golf Savings Bank.
