Executive Changes

SOUTHWEST

Southwest Bank of Texas in Houston has named Buddy Cox senior vice president and manager of the bank’s electronic commerce services group.

He is responsible for managing the bank’s Internet, Intranet, and e-commerce activities. He reports to Jim Massey, executive vice president and chief information officer.

Mr. Cox, who was a vice president, joined the bank in 1992 as a credit analyst.

Southwest has also given Elizabeth Spreen, a loan documentation manager, the title of vice president. Her responsibilities do not change.

For the past year and a half she has been responsible for preparing in-house real estate, consumer, and commercial loan documents and reviewing them for legal and compliance requirements.

Before joining the $3.3 billion-asset bank as a loan originator in 1994, she had been a loan documentation specialist at First City Bank in Columbus, Ohio.


MIDDLE ATLANTICValley National Bank in Wayne, N.J., has promoted Alan D. Eskow to executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Mr. Eskow was the senior vice president, controller, and chief accounting officer at the $6.2 billion-asset bank. He joined Valley National in 1990 as a vice president in the financial administration department and had been promoted to senior vice president in 1993.


Riverside Bank in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has hired David S. MacFarland as president and chief executive officer.He succeeded Paul H. Engels, who has retired.

Mr. MacFarland was the LaGrangeville-based executive vice president of corporate banking at Premier National Bank in Poughkeepsie, where he worked for six years. Before that he had been the Hudson Valley region president at Fleet Bank of New York in Albany (now part of FleetBoston Financial Corp.), where he had started his career in 1963.

Riverside has $50 million of assets.


WESTSilicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, Calif., has hired Dave Gatterman as the director of human resources.

Mr. Gatterman was an independent human resources consultant. He has 20 years of human resources experience, including jobs at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco, First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles, and Hibernia National Bank in New Orleans.

Silicon Valley Bank, a subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares, has $5.3 billion of assets.


Cascade Bank in Everett, Wash., has hired Ed Shunk as the vice president of income property and construction lending.He is based in the bank’s Bellevue branch.

Before joining Cascade, Mr. Shunk worked at Banner Bank in Walla Walla. He has 19 years of commercial real estate lending experience.

Cascade Bank, a subsidiary of Cascade Financial Corp., has $710 million of assets.

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