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
Fair Lawn, N.J.-based Columbia Bank (MHC) appointed Oliver Lewis executive vice president and head of commercial banking.
Lewis has been Columbia Bank's senior vice president and commercial banking market manager since May 2019, in which he was responsible for the central and southern New Jersey lending regions.
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Fairfax, Va.-based Freedom Bank of Virginia hired Kevin Ferryman as senior vice president and head of the Small Business Administration division.
Ferryman was most recently senior vice president and director of SBA lending at Patriot Bank in Connecticut.
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Port Angeles, Wash.-based First Northwest Bancorp announced that Jennifer Bolton joined unit First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Port Angeles as senior vice president and senior director of digital marketing.
Prior to joining First Federal, Bolton was a senior director of marketing for data intelligence company Koverse Inc.
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London, Ontario-based VersaBank's board added Peter Irwin as a member, filling the vacant position left by the sudden death of Colin Litton in December 2020.
Irwin has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the Canadian financial services industry.
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Oakdale, Calif.-based Oak Valley Bancorp, the bank holding company for Oak Valley Community Bank and Eastern Sierra Community Bank, announced the promotions of Julie DeHart to executive vice president of the retail banking group and Cathy Ghan to executive vice president of the commercial real estate group.
DeHart originally joined Oak Valley in 2005 and most recently was senior vice president and retail banking manager.
Ghan joined Oak Valley in 2007 to develop the commercial real estate department.
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Stephen Nelson retired as executive vice president and chief lending officer of Catskill, N.Y.-based Greene County Bancorp Inc. (MHC) and banking unit Bank of Greene County (MHC).
Perry Lasher will take over the roles for the company and the bank from Nelson in a planned retirement transition.
Nelson has served as executive vice president and chief lending officer since 2008. Lasher has worked at the bank since the inception of the commercial lending team in 2007.
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Patricia Barbour retired from the boards of Dover, N.H.-based First Seacoast Bancorp (MHC) and unit First Seacoast Bank (MHC), effective Dec. 31, 2020.
Barbour's retirement was in accordance with the company's mandatory retirement age provision.
The company decreased the number of directors from 10 to nine, also effective as of Dec. 31, 2020, to eliminate the vacancy Barbour left.
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William Elliott retired from the board of Quincy, Calif.-based Plumas Bancorp, effective Dec. 31, 2020, as required by the company's age-based retirement policy.
Elliott has been a director since 1987.
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Jorge Trabanco retired as executive vice president and chief accounting officer of Coral Gables, Fla.-based Amerant Bancorp Inc., effective Dec. 31, 2020.
In addition, the company eliminated the position of chief accounting officer and created a new controller position, which will be responsible for overseeing the company's accounting and reporting functions.
Armando Fleitas was appointed senior vice president and controller, effective Jan. 1.
Fleitas, who joined Amerant in 2010, most recently was senior vice president and financial reporting manager.
Financial services
Brookfield Asset Management Inc.'s board appointed Hutham Olayan as a member.
Olayan is chair of the multinational investment enterprise The Olayan Group in Saudi Arabia.
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Joseph Canion retired from the board of Invesco Ltd. on Dec. 31, 2020.
Canion was previously scheduled to retire at the company's annual meeting on May 14, 2020, but his tenure was extended due to the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.