Succession planning

David Araujo, who served as an executive at Digital Federal Credit Union, will join the Portsmouth, N.H.-based institution next month.

Two institutions in Virginia and one in Washington state have named new leadership amid a wave of expected CEO retirements.

David Fearing will take over at Accolade Asset/Liability Advisory Services as Joe Ghammashi retires.

The Alabama bank has named former power company executive Charles McCrary chairman instead of giving the job to new CEO John Turner.

The former head of Heritage Oaks Bancorp says she relishes a chance to reinvent Luther Burbank, a thrift that wants to make more commercial loans — a shift she has deftly orchestrated before.

James Reynolds will become the president and CEO of the New York institution after James Doig retires.

New president Lyndon Matteson is expected to also eventually take on the CEO role once Edward Lopes retires in late 2019.

Mike Walsh, former CEO of Jefferson County Bancshares, has become a director at St. Louis Bank.

Norman Mann II, who has worked for the institution for more than a decade, will take over as president and CEO for Danny Gregg, who is retiring.

Simone Lagomarsino, former CEO of Heritage Oak Bank, will succeed John Biggs next month.