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Presidio Bank of San Francisco said Stephen A. Fleming, its president and chief executive officer, will resign Aug. 31.
Mr. Fleming co-founded the $160 million-asset bank, which opened in 2006. Before that he had been the president and CEO of National Bank of the Redwoods, which WestAmerica Bancorp bought in 2005.
James R. Woolwine, a co-founder and the chairman of Presidio, will become the interim CEO. Robert Leet, a board member, will become the interim president.
Bank of Alameda, an Oakland, Calif., unit of Norcal Community Bancorp, has hired Anthony Thompson as a vice president and relationship manager.
Mr. Thompson was working for Summit Bank in Oakland. Before that he had been the manager of business affairs for the Ford family in Palm Beach, Fla.
Bank of Alameda has $273 million of assets.
Tri-Valley Bank of San Ramon, Calif., has hired Glen C. Terry as its president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Terry was a senior vice president and commercial banking manager at Umpqua Bank. He joined Umpqua when it bought Vintage Bank, where he had been the president and CEO.
Tri-Valley has $92 million of assets.
Coronado First Bank in California has hired John Penrith as an executive vice president and its Western regional manager.
Mr. Penrith was an executive vice president and chief lending officer for San Diego Trust Bank, which opened in 2004. (First Interstate Bank of California bought his previous employer, San Diego Trust and Savings Bank, in 1994.)
He will oversee off-island business acquisition for the $59 million-asset Coronado First.
Bank of Eastern Oregon in Heppner has promoted Jeff Bailey to president.
Mr. Bailey has worked for the $209 million-asset bank since 1996. He will begin his new job July 1. He will succeed E. George Koffler and will remain the chief credit officer.
Mr. Koffler will remain the chief executive officer of the bank and the president and CEO of its parent, BEO Bancorp. He is planning to retire March 31.
MIDWESTRiver Valley Financial Bank of Madison, Ind., has hired Robert E. Kleehamer as its vice president of business development for Clark and Floyd counties.
Mr. Kleehamer was the area president for New Albany and Clark County at First Harrison Bank, which he joined in 2003, when it bought Hometown National Bank, which he co-founded in 1997. At the time of the purchase he had been Hometown's president.
River Valley has $347 million of assets.
First Chicago Bank and Trust Co. of Itasca, Ill., has hired John Littrell as a senior vice president of asset-based lending and Andrew Bennett, James Low, and Joseph Ach as vice presidents of asset-based lending.
All previously held executive roles at ABN Amro Holding NV's LaSalle Bank.
Mr. Littrell had been the division manager for metropolitan banking since 1999.
Mr. Bennett was a vice president and relationship manager. Before that he had been an assistant vice president and relationship manager for Fifth Third Bank.
Mr. Low was also a vice president and relationship manager. Before that he had been an assistant vice president and portfolio manager for Citi Smith Barney.
Mr. Ach was most recently an assistant vice president and relationship manager. He joined LaSalle in 2001 as a credit analyst.
First Chicago has $1.1 billion of assets.
MIDDLE ATLANTICSusquehanna Bancshares Inc. of Lititz, Pa., has promoted Eddie L. Dunklebarger to president and chief operating officer.
Mr. Dunklebarger had been an executive vice president for the $13 billion-asset company since February.
Before that he had been a director, the president, and the chief executive officer of Community Banks Inc., which Susquehanna bought in November.
Northfield Bank of Staten Island, N.Y., has promoted Diane Senerchia to program director of its Northfield Bank Foundation.
Ms. Senerchia was a vice president of institutional marketing and sales in Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.'s municipal bond department.
She will oversee the foundation's grant application and review process, as well as communications with other local nonprofit organizations.
The $1.4 billion-asset Northfield Bank established the foundation in November to support not-for-profit organizations in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and central New Jersey.
