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Emerald Bank of Dublin, Ohio, has hired James L. Long as its president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Long had been the senior vice president of retail banking for Heartland Bank in Gahanna since 2000. Before that he had been the retail executive for the central Ohio market at Key Bank, where he had worked since 1977.
Emerald Bank is a $54 million-asset unit of Middlefield Banc Corp.
Oxford Bank in Michigan has promoted Nathan E. Davidson to assistant vice president and chief risk management officer, a new position.
Mr. Davidson has been an officer of the $408 million-asset unit of Oxford Bank Corp. since 2006 and an internal audit supervisor since 2005. Before that he had been an audit clerk at the bank, which he joined as a teller.
MIDDLE ATLANTICWestchester Bank of Yonkers, N.Y., has hired John M. Tolomer as its president and chief executive officer.
Mr. Tolomer had been the Florida president of Commerce Bank in Cherry Hill, N.J. Before that he had overseen the expansion of Commerce into Westchester County since 2003.
He succeeded George E. Dunkel, who had been president and CEO of Westchester Bank since last year and has retired.
Westchester Bank is a $27 million-asset unit of Westchester Banc Holding Corp.
SOUTHEASTServisFirst Bank of Birmingham, Ala., has hired Harrison Morris as its executive vice president and senior lending officer.
Mr. Morris had been the market president for Dothan at Wachovia Corp. since last year. Before that he had been the senior community banker overseeing its commercial banking business in Montgomery since 2004, when Wachovia bought his previous employer, SouthTrust Bank. Before that he had been a commercial loan officer for SouthTrust.
ServisFirst Bank, a $972 million-asset unit of ServisFirst Bancshares Inc., also hired Barry DeVane as its vice president of commercial banking and Mitzi Gulledge as a vice president of private banking.
Mr. DeVane had been the vice president of community banking at Wachovia since last year. Before that he had been the vice president of commercial lending for Mid-South Bank since 2000.
Ms. Gulledge had been a vice president and financial sales leader at Wachovia since 2004. Before that she had been a market retail financial sales manager since 2000. She began her career with Wachovia as a financial services representative.
WESTPlaza Bank of Irvine, Calif., has hired Gene Galloway as its chief executive officer and Robert Forsythe as its president.
Mr. Galloway was the executive vice president and chief of the retail and community banking group at Sanwa Bank California. Before that he had been the executive vice president of the community banking division of United California Bank.
Mr. Forsythe was the chief operating officer of the small-business finance unit at Lehman Brothers. Before that he had been a senior vice president at CNL Commercial Finance Inc. Earlier he had been a co-manager at Bank of Yorba Linda, where he oversaw Small Business Administration lending.
Mr. Galloway and Mr. Forsythe succeeded Donald L. Solsby, a founder of the $74 million-asset Plaza Bank.
First Capital Bancorp Inc. of Glen Allen, Va., has rehired John Presley as its managing director and chief executive officer.
Most recently Mr. Presley oversaw the mergers and acquisitions and strategic initiatives business at Fifth Third Bancorp. Before that he had been the chief financial officer of Marshall & Ilsley Corp. and its Marshall and Ilsley Bank.
In 2003 he left the $396 million-asset First Capital to become the CFO of National Commerce Bancorp., which SunTrust Banks Inc. bought in 2004.
Great Basin Bank of Nevada in Elko has promoted Jean Sloan to executive vice president.
Ms. Sloan will remain the chief financial officer of the $281 million-asset unit of Great Basin Financial Corp. She had been a senior vice president. She has worked for Great Basin Bank since 1994.
