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Ameriana Bank of New Castle, Ind., has promoted Janice Brehm to senior vice president of mortgage banking.
Ms. Brehm joined Ameriana in 2004 as a vice president in the mortgage lending division. Before that she had been a mortgage loan officer and processing supervisor at First Bank Richmond since 2002. Earlier she had been a mortgage loan originator and then assistant vice president and mortgage loan officer at Peoples Loan and Trust Bank in Winchester, which Old National Bancorp of Evansville bought in 2000.
Ameriana Bank is a $425 million-asset unit of Ameriana Bancorp.
MIDDLE ATLANTICValley National Bank of Wayne, N.J., has promoted Dianne M. Grenz to first senior vice president and director of marketing and public relations.
Ms. Grenz has worked for the $12 billion-asset unit of Valley National Bancorp since 1995. In 1997 she created and managed the bank's shareholder relations department and was promoted to public relations director in 2003.
In her new role, she will oversee all of the bank's marketing and advertising efforts.
Signature Bank in New York has hired Steven Krauser and Frank Sabalja as group directors and senior vice presidents for the bank's new branch in Jericho, Long Island.
Both Mr. Krauser and Mr. Sabalja joined the $5.8 billion-asset Signature from the corporate office of North Fork Bank, a subsidiary of Capital One Financial Corp.
Mr. Krauser had been a senior vice president in North Fork's business concierge group since 2003 and oversaw the cultivation of relationships with commercial clients in the New York area. Before that he had led Network Associates Inc., a consulting group that provided business development services to the financial services and legal industries.
Mr. Sabalja was the senior vice president and risk manager for the taxi medallion and dealer finance business at North Fork, where he was in charge of establishing client relationships. Earlier he had been a lender to middle-market companies in Suffolk County at the bank. Before that he had worked in similar lending positions at other institutions, including Fleet Bank, which Bank of America Corp. bought in 2004.
SOUTHEASTNew Century Bancorp Inc. of Dunn, N.C., has hired Daniel Fisher as an executive vice president and its chief credit officer.
Mr. Fisher will oversee credit functions for both the $590 million-asset company's banking units, New Century Bank and New Century Bank South, including policy implementation.
He had been the senior executive vice president and chief credit officer for Gateway Bank and Trust Co. in Elizabeth City since 2005.
Earlier he had been a special loans group manager for RBC Centura Bank and a manager of loan operations and consumer compliance at Bank of North Carolina.
WESTSVB Financial Group of Santa Clara, Calif., has promoted Dave Webb to chief operations officer, Greg Becker to president of its Silicon Valley Bank, and Derek Ridgley to risk manager of the bank's central division.
Mr. Webb has worked for SVB since 2004 as its chief information officer and was in charge of aligning its information technology progress with its business strategy.
Before joining SVB he had been a vice president of investment banking at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Earlier he had been the chief information officer of the finance one division at Bank One Corp., which JPMorgan Chase & Co. bought in 2004.
Mr. Becker has worked for SVB for the past 15 years, most recently as the chief operating officer and head of commercial banking. He oversaw the venture capital group and was in charge of developing the bank's first fund of funds and its first direct equity fund. He also opened its Boulder, Colo., office in 1996.
Mr. Ridgley is based in Colorado and will oversee risk management and underwriting for the 28 states within the central division. He has held various lending, relationship management, and advisory services jobs at the $6.1 billion-asset SVB since 1997. Most recently he developed, expanded, and led the product and client advisory services teams.
