Executive Changes

MIDDLE ATLANTIC

Amalgamated Bank of New York has hired Michael J. Indiveri as an executive vice president and its chief financial officer.

He will report to Derrick D. Cephas, the president and chief executive officer of the $4.5 billion-asset subsidiary of Unite Here CLC.

Most recently Mr. Indiveri was an executive vice president and the CFO for City and Suburban Federal Savings Bank in Yonkers, which he joined in 1997. He held that position until Ridgewood Savings Bank bought City and Suburban in July.


SOUTHEASTBank of Florida Corp. of Naples has promoted John S. Chaperon to president and chief executive officer of its Bank of Florida-Southeast and Charles K. Cross Jr. to senior lender for the unit, and hired Lee Willet as market president for the $1.3 billion-asset company's Bank of Florida-Palm Beach County.

Mr. Chaperon will remain the corporate risk officer for Bank of Florida Corp., a job he has held since 2007. He joined the $463 million-asset Bank of Florida-Southeast in 2002 as an executive vice president and senior lender for southeast Florida. Last year he was the interim president for the company's first acquisition, Bristol Bank. He held that job until Bristol was merged into Bank of Florida-Southeast.

Mr. Cross joined Bank of Florida-Southeast in November 2004 and most recently was its market president for Palm Beach County.

Mr. Willet has more than 25 years of banking experience and will succeed Mr. Cross at the $60 million-asset Palm Beach unit. Most recently, Mr. Willet was a senior vice president and the director of private banking at Colonial Bank.

Mr. Cross and Mr. Willet will report to Mr. Chaperon.

 


 Bank of Powhattan in Virginia has hired Chip Carter as its president.

Mr. Carter has more than 30 years of banking experience, primarily in the Richmond metropolitan area.

He was the Richmond regional president of First Community Bank in Bluefield.

Bank of Powhattan is a $70 million-asset division of TransCommunity Financial Corp. of Glen Allen, which operates three other Virginia community banks: Bank of Goochland, Bank of Louisa, and Bank of Rockbridge.


SOUTHWESTUnited Western Bank of Denver has hired Thomas J. Kientz as its executive vice president of retail banking and operations.

Mr. Kientz has more than 19 years of community banking experience. Before joining the $2 billion-asset bank he was a retail executive and senior vice president for Colorado at Compass Bank, a position he held for seven years. Before that he had been a district manager and senior vice president in Oregon for U.S. Bancorp.

 


 T Bank, a $141 million-asset Dallas subsidiary of T Bancshares Inc., has hired Patrick Howard as an executive vice president and its chief operating officer.

Mr. Howard has more than 20 years of banking experience. Most recently he was an executive vice president, the chief operating officer, and the director of corporate development for United Western Bank in Denver.


WESTCommunity Bancorp of Las Vegas has promoted Blake Boyer to vice president and marketing director for the holding company.

Ms. Boyer was previously the marketing analyst for the company's $1.6 billion-assset subsidiary, Community Bank of Nevada.

Community Bancorp has $1.7 billion of assets.

 


 Neighborhood National Bank of San Diego has promoted Barbara Hosaka, its chief operations officer, to president.

She will succeed Robert McGill, Neighborhood's founder, chairman, and chief executive officer, who became the acting president in April. Mr. McGill will remain the chairman and CEO.

Ms. Hosaka joined Neighborhood in 2001 as an executive vice president and its chief financial officer. Before that she had been an executive vice president at Peninsula Bank of San Diego, which U.S. Bancorp bought in 2000.

Neighborhood National Bank has more than $100 million of assets and is a unit of Neighborhood Bancorp in National City, Calif.

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