NEW ENGLAND
Camden National Corp. in Maine has hired Deborah A. Jordan as its senior vice president, chief financial officer, and principal financial and accounting officer.
Ms. Jordan was an executive vice president and the CFO of Merrill Merchants Bancshares Inc. in Bangor. She was promoted to executive vice president in 1999 and had been CFO since she joined the bank in 1993. Before that she had been an audit manager in Boston for Arthur Andersen LLP.
She will begin her new job at the $2.2 billion-asset Camden National on Sept. 1.
MIDWESTCommunity Bank of Oak Park River Forest in Illinois has promoted Walter Healy to president.
Mr. Healy had been an executive vice president since he helped found the bank, a unit of Oak Park River Forest Bankshares Inc., in 1996. Before that he had been the vice president of commercial lending at Firstar Bank Illinois, which U.S. Bancorp bought in 1999. Earlier he had been a vice president and a commercial lender at First National Bank of Chicago, which is now part of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
He succeeded Martin J. Noll, who was promoted to chairman of Community Bank's board and will remain the chief executive officer.
Mr. Noll founded the bank as its president. As the chairman, he succeeded Henry B. Pearsall, who will become a chairman emeritus.
MIDDLE ATLANTICFirst Bank of Delaware in Wilmington has promoted Alonzo J. Primus to chief executive officer.
Mr. Primus will remain the $118 million-asset bank's president and chief operating officer, positions he has held since 2006.
Before that he had worked for Summit Bank in Princeton, N.J., and CoreStates Bank in Philadelphia.
Mr. Primus is also a director of First Bank of Delaware.
Continental Bank of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., has promoted H. Wayne Griest to chief executive officer.
Mr. Griest will remain the $410 million-asset bank's president, a position he has held since last year.
Before that he had been the chief financial officer at Dewey Cos. LP, a real estate company in Wayne. Earlier he had been an executive vice president for Progress Bank (now part of Bank of America), where he oversaw residential and commercial real estate construction lending.
TriState Capital Bank of Philadelphia has hired Joseph L. Rago as its senior vice president of commercial real estate and Mark W. Torie as its senior vice president of commercial lending.
Mr. Rago was a vice president of commercial real estate and construction financing for Commerce Bank in Philadelphia.
He will oversee construction financing for commercial real estate developers in eastern Pennsylvania at the TriState Capital Holdings Inc. unit.
Mr. Torie was a senior vice president and team leader of the technology and life sciences banking group at Citizens Bank in Philadelphia.
He will oversee commercial and industrial lending to middle-market companies in eastern Pennsylvania.
SOUTHEASTOmni Financial Services Inc. of Atlanta has hired Thomas J. Flournoy as its executive vice president and chief financial officer for the company and its Omni National Bank.
Mr. Flournoy was the chief operating officer of Commonwealth Bank and Trust in Louisville. Before that he had been the chief financial officer of Summit National Bank in Atlanta.
Omni Financial has $992 million of assets.
Community Bankers Acquisition Corp. of Great Falls, Va., has promoted George M. Longest Jr. to chief executive officer.
Mr. Longest will remain the president, a job he has held since May, when the $249 million-asset Community Bankers Acquisition bought BOE Financial Services of Virginia Inc.
Before that he had been the president, the CEO, and a director of BOE Financial and the president and CEO of its Bank of Essex since 2005.
As the CEO of Community Bankers Acquisition, he succeeded Bruce Nolte, who resigned.
