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First Financial Bancorp of Hamilton, Ohio, has hired Adrian O. Breen as a market president for its $2 billion-asset First Financial Bank.
He will oversee the Ohio cities Hamilton, West Chester, and Lebanon for the bank, which also has markets in Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Mr. Breen was a vice president for five years at Park National Bank of Newark, Ohio, overseeing growth initiatives in the state's southwest. Before that he had been the head of commercial lending for Butler County at Fifth Third Bank.
First Financial Bancorp has $3.8 billion of assets and owns two other banks: Community First Bank and Trust and Sand Ridge Bank.
Amcore Financial Inc. of Rockford, Ill., has given its chief financial officer, John R. Hecht, a new job: commercial line of business manager.
He will oversee the commercial division of the $5.2 billion-asset Amcore Bank, whose five regional presidents will report to him.
Mr. Hecht has been the holding company's CFO since 1992 and will keep that job until a successor is named.
He joined the company in 1986 and was its controller from 1988 to 1992. He has been an executive vice president since 1997.
MIDDLE ATLANTICEagleBank of Bethesda, Md., has hired Janette Shaw as its vice president of marketing and advertising.
Ms. Shaw had been the director of marketing at Cardinal Bank, a $1.5 billion-asset unit of Cardinal Financial Corp. in McLean, Va., for the past three years.
Before that she had been the vice president of advertising and public relations at Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Frederick, Md., for five years. Still earlier she had managed marketing for 12 years at Goldome Savings Bank of St. Petersburg, Fla.
EagleBank has $600 million of assets and is owned by Eagle Bancorp.
SOUTHEASTCapital Bank of Raleigh has hired Willard Ross as its retail banking executive and a senior vice president.
He will manage all 21 branches of the $915 million-asset Capital Bank Corp. unit and oversee sales of retail banking products.
Mr. Ross was a regional manager of personal and business banking at RBC Centura Bank in Raleigh. He worked at the Royal Bank of Canada unit and its predecessors for 14 years.
He has 30 years of banking experience.
First Bancorp of Troy, N.C., has named Anna G. Hollers the chief operating officer of the company and its $1.7 billion-asset First Bank.
Ms. Hollers will remain an executive vice president and the corporate controller of the company and the bank. She has worked at First Bank for 33 years.
SOUTHWESTWhitney National Bank of New Orleans, has named David Paetzold the head of its Tampa operations.
Mr. Paetzold had been a commercial lending manager since joining the bank last year. He has 33 years of banking experience.
The $8.9 billion-asset unit of Whitney Holding Corp. has temporarily moved its headquarters to Houston in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
WESTUmpqua Bank of Portland, Ore., has promoted its chief credit officer, Brad Copeland, from executive to senior executive vice president.
Mr. Copeland has been CCO of the $5 billion-asset bank since 2000, when Umpqua Holdings Corp. merged with VRB Bancorp. He had been the credit administrator and an executive vice president at VRB and its Valley of the Rogue Bank.
Summit Bank of Oakland, Calif., has hired Mark McDonald as its senior credit officer and a senior vice president.
Mr. McDonald was a director of risk management at Sheshunoff Management Services LP of Austin. He oversaw credit risk management and regulatory compliance for the company's financial institution clients in the western United States.
Summit Bank is a $164 million-asset unit of Summit Bancshares Inc. of Oakland.
