NEW ENGLAND
Strata Bank of Medway, Mass., has hired Mark L. Abbate as an executive vice president and its chief financial officer.
Mr. Abbate has more than 25 years of financial services experience. He was a project consultant at Resources Global Professionals in Boston, where he provided companies with finance, accounting, and risk management support. Before that he had been a vice president and controller at FirstFed America Bancorp Inc., which Webster Financial Corp. of Waterbury, Conn., bought in 2004.
Strata Bank has $410 million of assets.
MIDWESTAmerican Savings Bank FSB of Munster, Ind., has promoted Michael Mellon to president and chief executive officer.
He succeeded Clement B. Knapp Jr., who retired from the two posts on Dec. 8.
Mr. Knapp had been the chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer since 1977. He will remain the chairman.
Mr. Mellon was an executive vice president and has been with the bank since 1993.
Irwin Financial Corp. of Columbus, Ind., the holding company for Irwin Union Bank and Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co., has promoted Thomas D. Washburn to vice chairman. He will begin Dec. 30.
He was an executive vice president.
Irwin Financial Corp. has $6.2 billion of assets.
Oxford Bank of Oxford, Mich., the sole subsidiary of Oxford Bank Corp., has promoted Robert J. Chetkovich to the additional title of assistant vice president.
Mr. Chetkovich will remain a consumer loan officer, a position he has held since joining the $485 million-asset bank in 2002.
MIDDLE ATLANTICCenter Bancorp Inc., the holding company for Union Center National Bank of Union, N.J., has promoted acting president Anthony C. Weagley to president, chief executive officer, and a member of the board.
Center Bancorp has $988 million of assets.
SOUTHEASTSquare 1 Financial of Durham, N.C., the parent company of Square 1 Bank, has promoted Susan Casey to the governing board of the company and its bank.
Ms. Casey will remain the chief credit officer and chief operating officer.
Square 1 Financial has $865 million of assets.
CenterState Banks of Florida Inc. in Winter Haven has promoted John C. Corbett to the additional title of executive vice president for the company.
Mr. Corbett will remain the president and chief executive officer of CenterState Bank of Florida, the company's $252 million-asset subsidiary in Kissimmee.
Mr. Corbett was at Wachovia Bank for ten years.
CenterState Banks of Florida Inc. has $1.2 billion of assets.
SOUTHWESTUMB Bank Colorado in Denver, an $803 million-asset subsidiary of UMB Financial Corp. in Kansas City, Mo., has hired Maureen K. Barker as president of UMB Asset Management, John Trujillo II as a vice president and senior portfolio manager, and Norm Close as a vice president and trust adviser.
Mr. Trujillo and Mr. Close will report to Ms. Barker.
Ms. Barker will be in charge of growing and developing the UMB Asset Management market in Colorado and Phoenix.
She has more than 29 years of financial services experience. She was a senior vice president in the business banking and professional services group at Wells Fargo & Co. in Denver.
Mr. Trujillo was an asset manager at SunTrust Bank in Tampa.
Mr. Close was the vice president of trust for the Bank of Cherry Creek in Denver.
WESTPreferred Bank of Los Angeles has hired Frederick B. Denitz as an executive vice president for its commercial lending group.
Before joining Preferred Bank, Mr. Denitz was an executive vice president at Mellon 1st Business Bank, a Los Angeles subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. in New York.
Preferred Bank has $1.5 billion of assets.
