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North Central Bancshares Inc. of Fort Dodge, Iowa, has named Paul F. Bognanno the president and chief executive officer of the company and the CEO of its $515 million-asset First Federal Savings Bank of Iowa.
He succeeded David M. Bradley, who will remain the parent company's chairman.
Mr. Bognanno joined North Central in 2005 and has been its senior executive vice president since February.
Before joining North Central he had worked at Principal Financial Group Inc. and its predecessors for 31 years, most recently as the president and CEO of Principal Residential Mortgage Inc. for 11 years until Citigroup Inc. bought it in 2004.
During that time he also had been the chairman of Principal Bank from 2000 to 2003.
MIDDLE ATLANTICFirst Keystone Bank of Media, Pa., has hired Dennis G. Clark as its chief credit officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. Clark came to the $519 million-asset unit of First Keystone Financial Inc. from Sovereign Bank, where he had been a vice president and a commercial lender.
Provident Bank of Jersey City has hired William J. Ruckert 3rd as a senior vice president and the head of its newly created middle-market lending department.
Before joining the Provident Financial Services Inc. unit, Mr. Ruckert was the director of commercial lending and a senior vice president at OceanFirst Bank, a $2 billion-asset bank in Toms River, N.J.
Earlier he had worked as a commercial lending officer at Bank of America, Summit Bank (now Bank of America), and CoreStates Bank (now Wachovia Bank).
Dollar Bank of Pittsburgh said Stephen C. Hansen, its chief executive officer, has retired because of an undisclosed sudden illness, and that Robert P. Oeler has been named to succeed him.
Mr. Oeler will remain the $5.3 billion-asset bank's president and chief operating officer, jobs he has had since April. (He succeeded Mr. Hansen as the bank's president.)
Before that Mr. Oeler had been an executive vice president in charge of the investment and residential and consumer lending divisions, as well as Dollar's mortgage banking subsidiary, Security Savings Mortgage Corp.
He joined Dollar in 1973 and was named a vice president five years later, a senior vice president in 1984, and an executive vice president in 1992.
Allegiance Bank of North America in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., has hired John A. Carrozza as its chief financial officer and a senior vice president.
Since 2001, Mr. Carrozza had held the same job and title at First Penn Bank of Philadelphia. (Conestoga Bancorp bought First Penn's parent, PSB Bancorp Inc., in April.)
Before joining First Penn he had been the audit manager at Stockton Bates & Co., a Philadelphia accounting firm. Still earlier he had owned his own accounting firm, JAC Consultants and CPAs.
Allegiance Bank has $139 million of assets.
SOUTHEASTCP Capital Bancorp of North Lauderdale, Fla., has hired Floyd D. Harper as the president and chief operating officer of the company and its $131 million-asset Security Bank.
He succeeded Manuel Fernandez, who will remain the bank's vice chairman.
Mr. Harper was the president and chief executive officer of the $238 million-asset TransCapital Bank in Hallandale Beach.
SOUTHWESTSterling Bancshares Inc. of Houston said in a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission that Stephen C. Raffaele has resigned as executive vice president and its chief investment officer.
The filing said Mr. Raffaele received $450,000 of severance and is no longer prohibited from competing with the company's $4.3 billion-asset Sterling Bank.
WESTFirst National Bank of Arizona in Phoenix has promoted Craig Chapman to national mortgage sales director.
Mr. Chapman, who will remain an executive vice president, was a division manager for the $3.4 billion-asset unit of First National Bank Holding Co., which he joined six years ago.
