S&P Global Market Intelligence presents a daily roundup of management and board changes in the financial services and bank and thrift industries. This feature excludes key C-level leadership changes, which are covered separately, and stories previously covered by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Banking
Lebanon, Va.-based First Bank and Trust Co., a unit of First Bancorp Inc., named Brent Dyson senior vice president and regional manager for Southwest Virginia.
Dyson will oversee the region's eight offices and manage the deposit and loan portfolios for Abingdon, Lebanon, Bristol, Norton and Wise, according to a news release.
Dyson joined First Bank and Trust as vice president and branch manager of the East Abingdon office in 2016.
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Partners Bancorp's board appointed Michael Clarke to serve as a director of the Salisbury, Md.-based company, effective Feb. 8.
In addition, Clarke was appointed to the board of one of the company's subsidiaries, Virginia Partners Bank, effective Jan. 27. In addition to his service as a director of the company and the bank, Clarke will provide consulting services to the bank to support its expansion efforts into the Greater Washington and Northern Virginia markets.
Clarke is a senior portfolio adviser at FJ Capital Management. He also works as a manager of the Graystone Investment Fund.
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Carla Cross agreed to join the board of West Bend, Wis.-based Commerce State Bank.
Cross is the president and CEO of Cross Management Services Inc.
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Amanda Otis joined the board of Hortonville, Wis.-based Wolf River Community Bank.
Otis is the president and former CFO of Eillien's Candies, which is based in Green Bay, Wis.
Financial services
Hilltop Securities Inc. appointed Brian Branigan senior vice president of institutional sales for its fixed income capital markets division in Memphis, Tenn.
Branigan previously worked with SunTrust Robinson Humphrey as vice president, where he established a whole loan trading platform for depository and nondepository clients.
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Senior trading executive Ram Sundaram is leaving Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bloomberg News reported Feb. 10, citing people with knowledge of the matter.