MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Commercial National Financial Corp. of Latrobe, Pa., has promoted Keith M. Visconti to executive vice president of its Commercial Bank and Trust of PA.
Mr. Visconti will remain the senior lending officer while taking on the supervision of the community branch network.He joined the $3.7 billion-asset company in 1990 as a community officer manager and has held a variety of jobs and titles there, including business development officer and senior vice president.
Clarkston Financial Corp. in Michigan has promoted J. Grant Smith to president of its Clarkston State Bank and chief executive officer of the bank and its $2 billion-asset parent company.Mr. Smith, who was the president and chief operating officer of the parent company, has worked for Clarkston State Bank since 2001. Before that he had been an executive vice president and the chief financial officer at New Century Bancorp Inc. in Dunn, N.C. Earlier in his career he had been a federal thrift examiner for the Office of Thrift Supervision.
Citizens First Corp. of Bowling Green, Ky., has promoted Todd Kanipe to executive vice president of credit administration and finance and Kim Harmon to senior vice president and principal accounting officer.Mr. Kanipe has worked for the $3.3 billion-asset Citizens First since 1999, when he joined its Citizens First Bank as a commercial lender and trust officer. He was promoted to executive vice president and chief credit officer in 2004.
He succeeded Steve Marcum, who left to pursue other interests, the company said.
Ms. Harmon had been the vice president and controller of Citizens First Bank since she joined the company in 1999. Before that she had worked in financial reporting for the Securities and Exchange Commission for three years.
SOUTHWESTTIB - The Independent BankersBank in Irving, Tex., promoted Patricia Blackshear and Jerry Wiley from senior to executive vice president.
Ms. Blackshear is one of four remaining original employees at the $1.7 billion-asset TIB, which opened in 1981. She will continue to work in human resources, where she has worked since the company opened.
Mr. Wiley has more than 20 years of experience with TIB, where he began in the capital markets division as an investment adviser. He will continue to work in the correspondent relations department, where he has worked since 2005, and he will start managing the investment sales group.
WESTColumbia Commercial Bancorp in Hillsboro, Ore., has hired Bob Ekblad as the chief financial officer of the company and its Columbia Community Bank.
Mr. Ekblad was the CFO of Town Center Bank, where he worked for four years. Before that he had spent 11 years at West One Bank.
Columbia Commercial has $3.1 billion of assets.
Oak Valley Community Bank in Oakdale, Calif., has promoted Dave Harvey to executive vice president of commercial banking and Wendy Burth to executive vice president of retail banking.Mr. Harvey had been a senior vice president at the $4.5 billion-asset Oak Valley since 2005. He joined the bank in 2002 as the manager of commercial lending in the Modesto area.
Ms. Burth joined the bank in 2005 as a regional vice president and sales manager. Before that she had been a senior vice president and Central Valley region manager for Union Safe Deposit Bank, which Bank of the West bought in 2004.
