NEW ENGLAND
Camden National Corp. in Maine said Gregory A. Dufour will succeed Robert W. Daigle as its president and chief executive officer when Mr. Daigle retires at yearend.
Mr. Daigle has been the $1.7 billion-asset company's president and CEO since 1999. Before that he had been the president and CEO of its Camden National Bank since he joined it in 1996. He will become senior executive consultant to the company's chairman and a senior adviser to the executive management team Jan. 1.
Mr. Dufour will remain the president and CEO of the bank, a job he has held since 2006. Before that he had been the president and chief operating officer since 2005. He joined Camden National Corp. in 2001 as a senior vice president of finance and the principal financial officer.
WESTSeattle Savings Bank has hired Ellen M. Sas as its president and chief executive officer.
Ms. Sas had been an executive vice president and chief risk officer at Frontier Bank since 2006, when it bought Northstar Financial Corp., where she had been the president, CEO, and chairman. Before joining Northstar she had been a partner and an independent consultant to banking clients at Knight, Vale & Gregory, now McGladrey & Pullen LLP.
Seattle Savings has $613 million of assets.
SOUTHEASTFlorida Bank of Commerce in Lake Mary has hired Ken Rummel as the senior vice president in charge of business development and banking.
He will be based in the Lake Mary branch of the $124 million-asset unit of FBC Bancorp Inc. in Orlando.
Mr. Rummel was a business development officer at First National Bank of Florida. Before that he had held the same job at Southern Community Bank, which First National bought in 2004. (Fifth Third Bancorp bought First National in 2005.)
Georgia-Carolina Bancshares Inc. of Augusta, Ga., said Patrick G. Blanchard plans to retire as its president and chief executive officer at the end of the month.
Mr. Blanchard has been the president and CEO since 1997 and helped in the creation of the $447 million-asset company's First Bank of Georgia. Before joining Georgia-Carolina he had been the president of Georgia Bank and Trust Co., an Augusta unit of Southeastern Bank Financial Corp., since 1988.
In his retirement, Mr. Blanchard will remain on the board of both Georgia-Carolina and First Bank of Georgia.
Remer Y. Brinson 3rd will succeed Mr. Blanchard and will remain the president and CEO of First Bank of Georgia.
MIDDLE ATLANTICValley National Bank in Passaic, N.J., has promoted Mariam Metwally to vice president.
Ms. Metwally joined the $12 billion-asset unit of Valley National Bancorp in 1998 as a processing manager for residential mortgages. Before that she had worked at AT&T Inc. from 1996 to 1998 as a customer service team leader.
F.N.B. Corp. of Hermitage, Pa., has hired Charles O. Moore as the president and chief executive officer of its consumer finance unit, Regency Finance Co., and Regency's subsidiaries, and rehired Tito Lima as the chief financial officer of its First National Bank.
Mr. Moore was the president and CEO of Dealer Financial Services, a unit of Aqua Finance Inc. of Wausau, Wis. Before that he was the president of the consumer finance division of U.S. Bancorp.
Mr. Lima had been the CFO and treasurer for Sterling Financial Corp. in Lancaster, Pa., since 2005. Before that he had been the CFO at First National Bank and the controller of its parent.
F.N.B. has $5.9 billion of assets.
