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Advantage Bank, a Cambridge, Ohio, unit of Camco Financial Corp., has promoted Douglass Swearingen to vice president.
Mr. Swearingen will remain a commercial loan officer, a job he has held since joining the $1 billion-asset Advantage last year. Before that he had been a senior vice president since 2000 at First Neighborhood Bank of Spencer, W.Va.
He is based in Vienna, W.Va., and will continue to oversee commercial lending, business banking products, and business development in Marietta, Ohio, and Parkersburg, W.Va.
University Bancorp Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., said Nicholas K. Fortson has resigned as the chief financial officer of the company and its University Bank.
Mr. Fortson will remain a director of the bank and two other University Bancorp units: Midwest Loan Services and University Islamic Financial Corp.
He joined University Bank in 2000 and has assisted in its growth initiatives. He oversaw the creation of University Islamic, the largest Islamic banking entity in the United States.
University Bancorp has $91 million of assets.
MIDDLE ATLANTICRidgewood Savings Bank of New York has promoted Lisa Funaro, Melissa Riccardo, and Laura Peters from assistant vice president to vice president.
Ms. Funaro has been a compliance officer with Ridgewood since 2001 and was promoted to assistant vice president in 2003. She is in charge of security and services, as well as ensuring regulatory and Bank Secrecy Act compliance. She has worked for the bank since 1983.
Ms. Riccardo has worked at the $4 billion-asset bank since 1986. She was promoted in 1999 to assistant residential mortgage processing and underwriting manager, a title she held until becoming an assistant vice president in 2002. She currently oversees residential loan origination.
Ms. Peters oversees human resources and employee training. She was promoted to assistant vice president in 2004 and has worked for the bank since 1989.
BankAnnapolis in Maryland has hired Joe McNally as a vice president and mortgage sales manager.
Mr. McNally was a district manager for the Middle Atlantic region at First Horizon Home Loans. Before that he had been a consumer real estate executive for Bank of America Corp.'s Atlantic North region. He had also been regional sales manager for the Middle Atlantic region with B of A, where he had worked for 25 years.
BankAnnapolis is a $361 million-asset unit of Annapolis Bancorp Inc.
SOUTHEASTFirst Bank and Trust of New Orleans has hired Paul Queyrouze as its chief financial officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. Queyrouze joined the $674 million-asset bank from Hancock Holding Co. of Gulfport, Miss. He had been a senior vice president and asset liability manager at Hancock, where he oversaw interest rate risk modeling and assisted in deposit and loan pricing, as well as external reporting.
Before joining Hancock, Mr. Queyrouze had held analyst and risk management jobs at Hibernia National Bank, which Capital One Financial Corp. bought in 2005.
First State Bank of Sarasota, Fla., has promoted Patricia C. Rhodes to executive vice president and chief administrative officer.
Ms. Rhodes has worked for the $475 million-asset unit of First State Financial Corp. since 2005, when she was hired as vice president of branch administration and corporate training. In her new position, she will oversee its administrative and operational areas.
Before joining First State Bank, she had held senior management positions at SouthTrust Bank, which Wachovia Corp. bought in 2005.
Community Resource Bank of Orangeburg, S.C., has hired William Jack McElveen Jr. as its director of loan review.
In his new job, Mr. McElveen is in charge of establishing credit analysis policies and standards as well as developing and maintaining loan risk grading systems that help the bank comply with federal and state regulations, among other responsibilities.
Mr. McElveen had been the chief operating officer at Carolina National Bank of Columbia, S.C., and earlier was a sales manager for the Middle Atlantic region of community development lending for First Union Bank. (Wachovia Corp. bought First Union Bank in 2003).
Community Resource is a $574 million-asset unit of Community Bankshares Inc.
