Simon Cruz has just been appointed as new President of The Bank of Coral Gables. Simon is the former President of Plus International Bank. Bruce Kelley, previously with CitiCorp, has just arrived at Deutsche Bank where he will be a Managing Director, Portfolio Consultant. John Rodriguez, President of FIBA, has been brought on board by HSBC as the Regional Sales Manager for Latin America. John comes from Wells Fargo Bank, where he was an SVP & Division Manager in the Global Correspondent Banking division. George Harduval has joined Mercantile Commercebank as a Senior Commercial Lender. Prior to Mercantile Commercebank, he was with US Century. Dan Overbey, the previous CEO/President of Colonial Wealth Management is now with Bank United Private Wealth Management where he is the CEO/President. Joaquin Arguello is now an EVP Commercial Director at BBU Bank. He had previously been with BAC where he was the Domestic Banking Manager. Last but not least, Charles Alzati, formally of Bank of America and RBC has joined Nason & Nason as a Senior Recruiting Consultant. Charles was a Private Banker for over 25 years.

Diane Ashely and Joe Nader have joined Coral Gables Trust. Alejandro Pereyra has been named Executive Director of Financial Institutions for Latin America at JP Morgan. Alejandro comes from Bank of America, where he was a Senior Vice President. Luiz Carlos Couto, formerly of Standard Chartered Bank, has just arrived at Bank of America Merrill Lynch to be the Senior Vice President of Global Financial Services-Latin America. Diego Polenghi has recently come to Miami as the Director of Private Clients for Standard Chartered. Pacific National Bank has brought on board Mahesh Pattabhiraman as a Senior Commercial Lender and Alexander Acosta as the Chief Credit Officer. Christian Novy was recently hired by BLADEX in their Miami office where he will be overlooking the vendor finance area. He used to be with BPD Bank where he was a Senior Correspondent Banker. Gregory Fefferman has been named a Private Wealth Advisor for Gibraltar Bank. He had formerly been with Citi Private Bank. Andy Collazo, previously with Colonial Bank, has joined TotalBank as Bank Operations Manager.