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North Central Bancshares Inc. of Fort Dodge, Iowa, has hired Kyle C. Cook as the chief financial officer and treasurer of the company and its $513 million-asset First Federal Savings Bank of Iowa.
For the past three years Mr. Cook had been the CFO of Liberty Bank, a $905 million-asset thrift in West Des Moines. For eight years before that he had worked at KPMG LLP, most recently as a tax senior manager.
SOUTHEASTBankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said Valerie C. Toalson would become its chief financial officer and an executive vice president on June 30.
She will succeed James A. White, who will retire.
Ms. Toalson will remain the CFO of its $6.2 billion-asset BankAtlantic, a job she has had since joining the company in February of last year as a senior vice president. She was promoted to executive vice president at the bank in January.
WESTExcel National Bank of Beverly Hills has given its president, Brian Carlson, the additional job of chief executive officer.
Before helping launch the $64 million-asset bank in February 2005, Mr. Carlson had been an executive vice president at Temecula Valley Bank. He began his banking career as a commercial loan officer in 1983.
