MIDDLE ATLANTIC
S&T Bank of Indiana, Pa., has promoted vice presidents Wendy Bell and Richard Black to senior vice president.
Ms. Bell has been its controller since 1994, and Mr. Black has been an S&T commercial loan officer since 1979.
S&T Bank is a unit of the $3.3 billion-asset S&T Bancorp Inc.
Sterling Financial Corp. of Lancaster, Pa., has made Robert G. Coradi the president and chief executive officer of its $743 million-asset Bank of Hanover and Trust Co.
Mr. Coradi had been Bank of Hanover's chief operating officer since last year. Before that he had been the commercial credit manager for the unit, one of five owned by the $3 billion-asset Sterling.
He joined Bank of Hanover in 1988 but left to become the president and CEO of Glen Rock State Bank. He held that job from 1999 to 2001, when Community Banks Inc. of Harrisburg bought Glen Rock.
In his new job he succeeded Chad M. Clabaugh, who had led Bank of Hanover since 2002. Mr. Clabaugh will remain the senior vice president of personal services for Sterling, a job he has held since 2004.
Sterling has also named Craig L. Kauffman the president and CEO of its $270 million-asset Pennsylvania State Bank.
He succeeded Thomas J. Sposito 2d, who earlier had been named the company's chief banking officer.
Mr. Kauffman was a senior vice president and senior credit officer at Sterling's largest unit, the $1.8 billion-asset Bank of Lancaster County.
Before that he had been a senior relationship manager and a senior vice president at Wachovia Bank.
SOUTHEASTFirst Community Bancshares Inc. of Bluefield, Va., has made David D. Brown 5th its chief financial officer.
Mr. Brown had been the $2 billion-asset company's financial reporting coordinator since joining it in April of last year. Before that he had been the corporate auditor of United Bankshares Inc. of Charleston, W.Va.
Earlier he had been an accountant at Suttle & Stalnaker PLLC of Charleston.
In his new job he succeeded Mark A. Wendel, who joined First Community in November as its CFO but is leaving the company.
WESTPacific Commerce Bank, a $64 million-asset Los Angeles bank founded in 2002, has hired Michael Kang as the head of its commercial banking division and an executive vice president.
He had the same job and title at InterBusiness Bank, a $254 million-asset Los Angeles unit of TFC Holding Co. Inc.
Brian Kelley, the chief executive officer of Pacific Commerce, had worked with Mr. Kang at InterBusiness from 2000 to 2001, when the former was its president and CEO.
Matrix Bancorp Inc. of Denver has promoted three of its senior executives.
Benjamin C. Hirsh has been made the chief accounting officer of the company. He will remain the chief financial officer of its $2.1 billion-asset Matrix Capital Bank, a job he has had since 2001, until a successor is found. He joined the company in 2000 as its director of internal audit.
Glenna J. Hale has been named the head of consumer banking for the bank and promoted from senior to executive vice president. Ms. Hale, who joined the bank as the head of its trust department in 2002, had been its bank's chief operating officer since last year.
Patrick Howard has been named an executive vice president and has succeeded Ms. Hale as the bank's chief operating officer. Mr. Howard, a 12-year Matrix veteran, will remain the president and chief executive officer of Matrix Financial Services Corp., the company's mortgage subsidiary.
Community Bank of Pasadena, Calif., said that Francis P. Shanahan, its interim president and chief executive officer since February, has been given those jobs outright.
Mr. Shanahan will remain a director of the $2.1 billion-asset bank and the chairman of its finance committee, but he will give up chairmanship of the board, a job he has held for the last four years.
Alan Johnson, another director, has been named the board's chairman.
