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Seacoast Commerce Bank of Chula Vista, Calif., has hired Richard Visser as its chief credit officer.
Visser was a regional manager with Pacific Western Bank in San Diego. Before that he was a credit administrator for Community National Bank in Escondido.
He succeeded Mark Nugent, who resigned to move closer to his family, the $81 million-asset Seacoast Commerce said.
American Principle Bank of San Luis Obispo, Calif., said Cole W. Minnick Jr. would serve as its interim chief executive officer.
Minnick is a founding director of the bank. He was the CEO of Hacienda Bank in Santa Maria. Before that he was the CEO of California Oaks Bank in Thousand Oaks.
He succeeded David R. Booker, who stepped down as the CEO but will remain with the company to oversee new business development and customer relationships.
American Principle Bank has $158 million of assets.
Santa Ana Business Bank in California has hired Gustavo V. Liwski as its vice president and chief business development officer.
Liwski was a manager of a consulting business in Orange County. Before that he worked in small-business banking at Wachovia Corp.
Santa Ana Business Bank has $17 million of assets.
SCJ Inc. of San Jose has hired Allen Williams as the executive vice president and chief credit officer for its Bridge Bank.
Williams had been the chief credit officer for the Western region at Comerica Bank since 2003. Before that he had been the manager of middle-market groups in San Jose since 1998. He joined Comerica in 1992, when it bought his previous employer, Plaza Bank of Commerce.
Bridge Bank has $948 million of assets.
Temecula Valley Bancorp said Donald Pitcher has resigned as its executive vice president, secretary and chief financial officer.
Pitcher had been the company's secretary since 2002 and its CFO since 1996.
Philip Guldeman has become the interim CFO.
Temecula Valley has $1.5 billion of assets.
MIDDLE ATLANTICSun National Bank of Vineland, N.J., has hired Patricia McCrossen as a senior vice president and its marketing director.
McCrossen was an executive in the Palm Beach, Fla., wealth management firm GenSpring Family Offices LLC.
Sun National is a $3.6 billion-asset unit of Sun Bancorp Inc.
SOUTHEASTHampton Roads Bankshares Inc. of Norfolk, Va., has hired Michael J. Sykes as a senior vice president and a special assets project manager.
Sykes was a senior client manager and team leader at Bank of America Corp. Before that he led underwriting, negotiation and delivery of debt products.
Hampton Roads has $3.1 billion of assets.
SOUTHWESTPlainsCapital Bank of Lubbock has hired Tim Raetz as a senior vice president and the senior oil and gas manager and Linda Metcalf as a senior wealth management administrator.
Raetz was the vice president and senior mineral manager of the oil and gas group at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he was also the branch manager in Fort Worth. Before that he was the vice president and mineral manager in Bank of America Corp.'s minerals property management group.
Metcalf was a senior vice president and senior trust officer in Fort Worth for U.S. Trust, the private wealth management arm of B of A. Before that she was the manager of trust operations for First City National Bank in El Paso. Earlier she worked in the trust operations group at Citizens Commercial Savings Bank in Flint, Mich.
PlainsCapital has $3.9 billion of assets.
Southwest Securities of Arlington, Texas, has hired Julie Fuller as its vice president of Small Business Administration lending.
Fuller oversaw SBA loans and business banking transactions for Comerica Bank in Dallas. Before that she worked for Compass Bank.
Southwest Securities has $1.4 billion of assets.
