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PrivateBancorp Inc. of Chicago has hired Elizabeth Cummings as its chief operating officer and a managing director of its PrivateBank and Trust Co.
Ms. Cummings had been a senior vice president of global client services and implementation at JPMorgan Chase & Co. since 2004, when it bought Bank One Corp.
Before that she had been the chief technology officer at Bank One.
Earlier, Ms. Cummings had worked for First Chicago NBD Corp. which Bank One bought in 1998.
PrivateBancorp has $5 billion of assets.
MIDDLE ATLANTICNorthfield Bank of Staten Island, N.Y., has hired Jean Ringhoff as a vice president and manager of the New Dorp branch.
Ms. Ringhoff was a vice president at SI Bank and Trust, where she had worked since 1995. Sovereign Bancorp Inc. bought SI Bank in 2006.
Northfield has $1.3 billion of assets.
Susquehanna Bank of Lititz, Pa., has promoted Eddie L. Dunklebarger to president and chief executive officer.Mr. Dunklebarger will remain a vice chairman and the executive vice president of its $13 billion-asset parent, Susquehanna Bancshares Inc.
He joined the company in November, when it bought Community Banks Inc., where he had been the chairman, president, and CEO.
He succeeded Gregory A. Duncan as Susquehanna Bank's president and CEO.
WESTHeritage Bank of Commerce in San Jose has hired Christopher Plummer as a senior vice president of its finance team.
Mr. Plummer was a senior vice president and director of financial planning and analysis at Greater Bay Bancorp of Palo Alto, Calif. Before that he had spent four years as vice president of accounting and finance reporting for the company. (Wells Fargo & Co. bought Greater Bay in March.)
Heritage Bank has $1.3 billion of assets.
PremierWest Bancorp of Medford, Ore., has hired Michael D. Fowler as the chief financial officer of the company and its PremierWest Bank, and T. Joe Danelson as the chief banking officer of the bank.Both were also named executive vice presidents.
Mr. Fowler had been the CFO, treasurer, and secretary of Torrent Energy Corp. and its subsidiaries since 2006.
Before that he had been a consultant to Torrent Energy since 2005. Earlier he had been a co-CFO for Pacific West Bank since 2004.
Mr. Danelson was the regional president of Oregon and the Pacific Coast for U.S. Bank.
PremierWest has $1.1 billion of assets.
