News Topic: Succession planning

The bank also announced that it has recruited a BancWest executive to replace Michael Descheneaux as CFO. ... Read full article

Ignacio Alvarez, who takes over this summer from Richard Carrion, addresses the tough challenges the bank faces as looming cuts to government services and benefits could be painful for consumers and businesses on the Caribbean island. ... Read full article

The Arizona company said Kenneth Vecchione would be a candidate to eventually replace CEO Robert Sarver. ... Read full article

The Mississippi company said Mitchell Waycaster will succeed Robin McGraw in May 2018. ... Read full article

Doug Bowers will serve as the permanent replacement for Steven Sugarman, who resigned in January. ... Read full article

Craig Dahl, who took over as CEO last year when Bill Cooper retired, has added the chairman title. ... Read full article

MidSouth also fired Cloutier's son as part of what it called a "transition plan already under way to improve” performance. ... Read full article

Joseph Evans will step down as CEO on June 1, though he will remain the company's chairman. Thomas Wiley, a longtime associate of Evans, is set to take the helm. ... Read full article

Kate Quinn, one of American Banker's 25 Women to Watch in 2016, was given expanded duties, and consumer banking chief Kent Stone will retire. ... Read full article

Jefferson Harralson, the Georgia company's new chief financial officer, had covered banks at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods for 15 years. ... Read full article

John Fawcett, previously CFO at Citizens Financial in Providence, R.I., will succeed Carol Hayles as CFO. ... Read full article

The San Antonio company named Chad Borton, previously head consumer banking at Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, for the role. Fifth Third has named Philip McHugh as his successor. ... Read full article

Ashton Ryan, who had been removed as CEO in December, has still been serving as its president. The company also agreed to sell preferred stock to directors to help it make payments tied to its subordinated debt. ... Read full article

The Buffalo, N.Y., company is filling gaps created when Mark Czarnecki, its former president, died in February after a battle with pancreatic cancer. ... Read full article

Live Oak Bancshares in North Carolina has hired Scott Custer to run its bank. Custer recently resigned as a consultant to F.N.B. Corp. in a move that took place days after F.N.B. bought Yadkin Financial, where he had been president and CEO. ... Read full article

James Lockhart is set to join the New Jersey company's board. He will replace Wilbur Ross, who had to resign after becoming Commerce secretary. ... Read full article

Gerald Nadeau has been the company's top commercial lending executive since 2007. ... Read full article

H. Palmer Proctor has been the Atlanta company's president since 2004. ... Read full article