MIDWEST
Amcore Financial Inc. of Rockford, Ill., has hired Judith Carre Sutfin as an executive vice president and its chief financial officer.
She will succeed Donald H. Wilson, who was promoted to president and chief operating officer.
Ms. Sutfin was an executive vice president and the head of business decision support at LaSalle Bank Corp., which Bank of America Corp. bought Oct. 1.
Amcore Financial has $5.3 billion of assets.
MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Signature Bank of New York has hired a private client banking team from North Fork Bank, a Mattituck, N.Y., subsidiary of Capital One Financial Corp.The team will be based in Signature's Melville branch.
The $5.7 billion-asset bank has hired George M. Klett to head the team as a group director, an executive vice president, and the chairman of its commercial real estate committee; Paul A. Fritz, John Zieran, and Walter Malek as group directors and senior vice presidents; Zachary Bermudez, Eileen Dignam, and Joseph Fingerman as associate group directors and vice presidents; and Veronica Vega as a senior vice president.
SOUTHEAST
Bank of Florida Trust Co., a Naples subsidiary of Bank of Florida Corp., has promoted Scott Kellett to president.Mr. Kellett will remain the division president for Florida's west coast.
He was a senior vice president and Florida private client group manager at Fifth Third Bank Investment Advisors.
Bank of Florida Corp. has $1.3 billion of assets.
WEST
Temecula Valley Bancorp Inc., the $1.3 billion-asset California holding company for Temecula Valley Bank, has hired David H. Bartram as president of its Small Business Administration division.Mr. Bartram has more than 27 years of banking experience. He was the manager of the SBA division at U.S. Bank in Minneapolis.
Harrington West Financial Group Inc. of Solvang, Calif., the $1.2 billion-asset holding company for Los Padres Bank and Harrington Bank, has promoted Leigh Sherman to chief retail banking and marketing officer.
He reports to Craig J. Cerny, the chairman and chief executive officer.
Mr. Sherman will remain an Internet banking manager.
Heritage Bank of Commerce, the $1.3 billion-asset San Jose subsidiary of Heritage Commerce Corp., has hired Thomas S. Rohlf as a senior vice president and the regional manager for the South Valley market.
Mr. Rohlf was a senior relationship manager for Union Bank of California, a San Francisco bank mostly owned by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.
Center Financial Corp., the $2 billion-asset Los Angeles holding company for Center Bank, has hired Jai Hee Han as the manager of its new branch in Seattle.
Ms. Han was a vice president and branch manager at UniBank in Seattle. Before that she had been an operations officer and an assistant vice president at Pacific International Bank in Seattle.
City National Bank, the Beverly Hills subsidiary of City National Corp., has hired Michael Pagano as an executive vice president and the manager of its private banking services.
He will report to Christopher Warmuth, the president of the $15 billion-asset City National Bank.
Mr. Pagano was the southwest region president for Los Angeles at Bank of America Corp.'s private bank. Before that he had been the chief administrative officer for the Charlotte company's private bank in Boston.
