MIDDLE ATLANTIC
K Bank, a $652 million-asset unit of K Capital Corp. in Owings Mills, Md., has hired Roger Lee as a senior vice president of commercial lending.
Mr. Lee will lead the bank's commercial loan division. (The bank's other senior vice president of commercial lending, Mark DeLucca, will, along with vice president Gary Thomas, remain focused on sales.)
Mr. Lee was a vice president and a lending officer at Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore. Earlier in his 21-year banking career he had also worked at M&T Bank, Allfirst Bank (which M&T Bank Corp. bought in 2003), Summit Business Capital Corp., and Bank of America.
SOUTHWESTIberiabank Corp. of Lafayette, La., said the duties of Michael Brown, its chief credit officer and manager of its southern Louisiana operations, would be expanded when it purchases Pocahontas Bancorp Inc. and Pulaski Investment Corp.
Those deals are expected to close next quarter.
Mr. Brown, senior executive vice president of the $3.1 billion-asset Iberiabank, would run its operations throughout Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, and would move to Little Rock.
He joined Iberiabank in 1999 as an executive vice president and was promoted to senior executive vice president two years later.
United Western Bancorp Inc. of Denver has hired Jeff D. Thompson as the head of construction lending management at its $2.2 billion-asset United Western Bank, a newly created job.
Mr. Thompson, who also has been named an executive vice president of the bank, was the real estate and construction lending manager and a senior vice president at Colorado Business Bank, a unit of CoBiz Inc. in Denver.
Before that he had worked a variety of jobs as a senior vice president at FirstBank Holding Co. of Lakewood.
Sterling Bancshares Inc. of Houston has hired Zach L. Wasson as its chief financial officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Wasson joined the $4.3 billion-asset holding company after 16 years at Trustmark Corp. of Jackson, Miss. He had been the CFO of the $8.9 billion-asset Trustmark.
WESTFirst Bank of Beverly Hills in California has hired Eric Rosa as its chief lending officer and an executive vice president.
Mr. Rosa had the same job and title at ChinaTrust Bank U.S.A., a $2.6 billion-asset, Los Angeles unit of Taipei's ChinaTrust Financial Holding Co.
First Bank of Beverly Hills has $1.4 billion of assets and is owned by Beverly Hills Bancorp Inc.
Columbia State Bank of Tacoma has hired Donna Huey as its retail operations officer and a vice president.
Ms. Huey was a group operation administrator for western Washington at Washington Mutual Bank.
She has 31 years of banking experience.
West Coast Bank of Lake Oswego, Ore., has promoted Kevin McClung to senior vice president.
Mr. McClung, who had been a vice president at the $2.4 billion-asset unit of West Coast Bancorp, will remain its controller.
Golden State Business Bank of Upland, Calif., has named Ralph Wiita its president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Wiita had held those jobs on an interim basis since July.
He joined the $108 million-asset bank in December of last year as its chief financial officer and an executive vice president.
He has 15 years of banking management experience in southern California.
SVB Silicon Valley Bank of Santa Clara, Calif., has hired Brian Sherer as a managing director of corporate finance.
He will focus on technology and life science firms that have private-equity backing.
Mr. Sherer came to the $5.4 billion-asset unit of SVB Financial Group from Wells Fargo Foothill.
He had been a vice president focusing on private-equity-backed acquisition financing for the Wells Fargo & Co. business unit.
