NEW ENGLAND
Bank of Southern Connecticut of New Haven has hired Robert Mantilia as its chief lending and marketing officer.
Mr. Mantilia, who has also been named a senior vice president at the $95 million-asset unit of Southern Connecticut Bancorp Inc., had led JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s office of community partnerships and government affairs in Connecticut.
Before that he had overseen community investment and fair-lending activity in Connecticut and the Mid-Hudson region for Chase Manhattan Bank.
Bank of Southern Connecticut has also hired Matthew L. Proto Sr. as the president of its as-yet-unopened fifth branch, which would operate as a division of the bank under the Bank of North Haven name.
Michael M. Ciaburri, the bank's president and chief operating officer, said he expects the new branch to open around Independence Day.
Mr. Proto was a vice president of business banking and a team leader at NewAlliance Bank of New Haven.
Simsbury Bank and Trust Co. of Connecticut has hired Paul R. Little as its chief lending officer, its Community Reinvestment Act officer, and a senior vice president.
He succeeded Charles D. Forgie, who has retired.
Mr. Little was vice president of commercial real estate lending for Liberty Bank of Middletown.
Before that he had been vice president of commercial real estate loans at Savings Bank of Manchester. After its parent, Connecticut Bancshares Inc., merged with Alliance Bancorp of New England and New Haven Savings Bank in 2004, he had held the same job at NewAlliance Bank.
Simsbury Bank and Trust, a $210 million-asset unit of SBT Bancorp Inc., has also hired Juliana Gingerich as an investment executive and a vice president of its SBT Investment Services Inc.
Ms. Gingerich was a financial relationship specialist at Sovereign Bank. Before that she had been a financial adviser at Axa Advisors LLC in Colorado.
WESTNorthrim BanCorp Inc. of Anchorage has hired Joseph Beedle as its chief lending officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Beedle was the chief financial officer for the University of Alaska for six years. For six years before that he had been the president and chief executive officer of Goldbelt Inc., a diversified Juneau company organized under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.
Northrim Bank has $862 million of assets.
Pacific Continental Bank of Eugene, Ore., has made Roger S. Busse its president.
He remains the chief operating officer, a job he was given last year.
He joined the $792 million-asset unit of Pacific Continental Corp. in 2003 as an executive vice president and its chief credit officer. Before that he had worked at U.S. Bancorp as a manager of portfolio risk administration and a senior vice president.
