Amegy Bank of Houston has promoted Debbie Gibson from senior to executive vice president.
Ms. Gibson remains the head of the trust department, a job she has had since joining the $7.9 billion-asset unit of Amegy Bancorp. Inc. in 2002.
She has 30 years of banking experience.
Sterling Bank of Houston has hired John A. Rossitto, a veteran local banker, as an executive vice president and the chief executive officer of retail banking, a newly created job.
Graham Painter, the director of corporate communications at Sterling, which is primarily a business bank, said it hopes to leverage Mr. Rossitto's 37 years of area experience to help its burgeoning retail business.
Mr. Rossitto was the Texas CEO for Trustmark National Bank, an $8.2 billion-asset unit of Trustmark Corp. of Jackson, Miss. Before that he had been a senior vice president and the Houston market manager for Bank One Corp., which JPMorgan Chase & Co. bought in 2004.
He began his banking career in Houston in 1969 at Bank of the Southwest, which, after a series of acquisitions, became part of Bank One.
Sterling Bank is a $3.7 billion-asset unit of Sterling Bancshares Inc.
