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California United Bank in Encino has promoted Anne A. Williams to chief operating officer.
Ms. Williams is a founding executive of the $260 million-asset bank.
Before that she was a senior vice president and the California credit risk manager for U.S. Bank. Earlier she was an executive vice president and the chief credit officer at Santa Monica Bank.
She is California United Bank's chief credit officer and will retain this post.
Pacific Coast National Bank in San Clemente, Calif., has promoted Michael S. Hahn to chief executive officer and David L. Adams to executive vice president and chief lending officer.
Mr. Hahn founded the $112 million-asset bank in 2005 and has since been its president and chief operating officer. He succeeded Colin M. Forkner, who is retiring, the company said. Mr. Hahn will remain president.
Mr. Adams was the head of the bank's real estate industries group, which he had created. He will now oversee the bank's real estate industries, Small Business Administration lending, and commercial and industrial business banking groups.
MIDDLE ATLANTICHighlands State Bank in Vernon, N.J., has hired Kurt Lozaw as a vice president to oversee the business relationship development and commercial lending direction for the $42 million-asset institution.
He was a vice president of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico and earlier was a vice president at Barclays Bank in New York.
AmericasBank Corp. in Towson, Md., has promoted A. Gary Rever to acting chief executive officer of the company and its AmericasBank unit and Ellen R. Fish to director of community banking.
Mr. Rever joined the $137 million-asset company in 2003 as the chief financial officer. He succeeds Mark H. Anders, who was dismissed.
Ms. Fish has worked for the company since last year as the president of its Towson Community Bank subsidiary.
Before that she had been the senior vice president of commercial banking at Provident Bank since 1997.
MIDWESTNew Century Bank in Chicago has hired Larry Johnson as an executive vice president of commercial real estate and David Wejroch as a senior vice president and the chief credit officer.
Mr. Johnson was an executive vice president of commercial real estate at Charter One Bank, where he oversaw the origination and management of real estate loans for developers and investors based in Illinois. Charter One is a Chicago subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland.
Mr. Wejroch was a senior vice president and the chief credit officer of Inland Bank and Trust in Hillside, Ill.
New Century has $414 million of assets.
PrivateBancorp Inc. in Chicago has promoted Robert Burch to president of the Michigan unit of its PrivateBank.
Mr. Burch was the parent's vice chairman. He succeeded Patrick M. McQueen who was promoted to chairman and chief executive officer in March.
In 1989 Mr. Burch co-founded and was a vice chairman of Bank of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., which the $4.5 billion-asset PrivateBank bought in 2005.
NEW ENGLANDSouthern Connecticut Bancorp Inc. has hired Stephen V. Ciancarelli as a senior vice president and its chief financial officer.
Mr. Ciancarelli was the chief financial officer at Essex Corp., a subsidiary of John Hancock Life Insurance Co.
Southern Connecticut has $127 million of assets.
