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PrivateBancorp Inc. of Chicago has hired Leonard E. Wiatr as the chief compliance and regulatory affairs officer of its $3.3 billion-asset PrivateBank and Trust Co.
Mr. Wiatr was the executive vice president and chief compliance officer at LaSalle Bank Corp. which Bank of America Corp. bought last year from ABN Amro Holding NV.
Before joining LaSalle he had been an executive vice president and the deputy chief compliance officer for ABN Amro North America Inc.
Earlier in his career he worked for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, most recently as the examiner-in-charge in the large bank supervision division.
People's United Bank of Bridgeport, Conn., has hired Jared Shaw as its senior vice president of investor relations and mergers and acquisitions.Mr. Shaw was an equity analyst covering community banks and thrifts in New England, New York, and parts of the Middle Atlantic at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. Before that he had been vice president of equity research at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. Inc.
People's United has $12 billion of assets.
SOUTHEASTFirst Trust Corp. of New Orleans has hired Chris Berthaut as its head of project management.
Before joining the $800 million-asset First Trust, Mr. Berthaut was an information technology and business applications manager at Capital One Bank. Before that he had worked since 1985 for Hibernia National Bank, which Capital One Financial Corp. bought in 2004.
SOUTHWESTAmerican National Bank of Texas, a $1.8 billion-asset unit of A.N.B. Holding Co. Ltd. of Terrell, has hired Derek Williams as vice president of commercial lending for its Plano branch.
Mr. Williams was a senior vice president and commercial real estate lender at Texans Commercial Capital, a division of Texans Credit Union in Richardson. Before that he had been an assistant relationship manager at Compass Bank of Birmingham, Ala. Earlier he had been a senior credit analyst for Bank of America Corp.
MIDDLE ATLANTICSandy Spring Bancorp of Olney, Md., has promoted Daniel J. Schrider to president of the company and its Sandy Spring Bank.
Mr. Schrider had been the $3 billion-asset bank's chief revenue officer since January.
Before that he had been an executive vice president and the chief credit officer since 2003. He has worked for Sandy Spring since 1989.
He succeeded Hunter R. Hollar, who will retire at yearend and will remain the chief executive officer of the company and bank until then.
He has been their CEO since 1994 and their president since joining the company in 1990.
