MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Commerce Bank of Harrisburg, Pa., has promoted Rory G. Ritrievi to market president for retail and commercial banking.
Mr. Ritrievi has worked at the $1.9 billion-asset bank, the sole subsidiary of Pennsylvania Commerce Bancorp, since 1999, most recently as its chief lending officer.
Before joining Commerce he had been regional director of commercial lending for Keystone Financial Inc., which was acquired by M&T Bank Corp. in 2000.
USA Bank of Port Chester, N.Y., said the New York State Banking Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have approved the hiring of Ronald J. Gentile as the bank's president, chief executive officer, and director.
Mr. Gentile started his new job July 5. He had been the president, CEO and a director at the $62 million-asset Community Bank of Orange in Middletown from October 2004 to March 2007.
USA Bank has $108 million of assets.
BankAnnapolis of Maryland has hired Ronald M. Voigt as senior vice president and chief business development officer.
Mr. Voigt was a business banking market credit officer for the Baltimore/Bay region at Bank of America Corp. He managed nine business development officers with a credit portfolio of over $300 million for the Charlotte company.
BankAnnapolis is a $347 million-asset unit of Annapolis Bancorp Inc.
SOUTHEASTCrescent State Bank of Cary, N.C., has hired Mark Vaughn as senior vice president and compliance manager and William V. Leaming Jr. as senior vice president and director of operations.
Before joining the $752 million-asset subsidiary of Crescent Financial Corp., Mr. Vaughn had been a compliance specialist with two North Carolina banks. He began his banking career in Florida with Barnett Banks Inc., which Bank of America Corp. acquired in 1998.
Mr. Leaming was director of strategic planning for First National Bank in Asheboro, N.C. Before that he had been chief operating officer for Fidelity Bank in Fuquay-Varina.
Encore Bank of Naples, Fla., has hired Maureen Benner as vice president and branch manager of its Clearwater private client office.
Ms. Benner had previously worked at Florida offices of SunTrust Banks Inc. Before that he had worked at AmSouth Bancorp., which Regions Financial Corp. acquired last year.
Encore is a $1.3 billion-asset unit of Encore Bancshares Inc. in Naples.
WESTSunwest Bank, a Tustin, Calif., subsidiary of Western Acquisitions LLC, has hired Brian Constable as executive vice president and its chief commercial banking officer.
The $296 million-asset Sunwest also has hired John Treiber and Lisa Sacquety as vice presidents and relationship managers.
All three previously worked for Provident Bank in Riverside. Mr. Constable was corporate vice president and commercial sales and marketing manager, Mr. Treiber was vice president of business banking, and Ms. Sacquety was vice president of business development.
Golden Valley Bank of Chico, Calif., has hired James A. Doss as executive vice president and chief credit officer.
He succeeded Rick Timmons, who announced his retirement this year but will remain with the $52 million-asset Golden Valley as an adviser.
Mr. Doss was senior vice president and credit administrator for the $906 million-asset North Valley Bank in Redding. North Valley announced in April that it is selling itself to the $11.4 billion-asset Sterling Financial Corp. of Spokane, Wash.
Columbia State Bank of Tacoma has promoted Susan Larson to vice president and Donna Sayre to assistant vice president.
Both work in private banking for the $2.4 billion-asset unit of Columbia Banking System Inc.
Ms. Larson joined the bank in 1993. Before that he had worked at Puget Sound Bank for 10 years.
Ms. Sayre has been a financial analyst for Columbia for two years. Before that she had worked for U.S. Bancorp.
