As part of its acquisition of Landmark National Bank, 1st Pacific Bancorp is appointing to both its corporate and bank boards Landmark directors Ron Carlson and Chris McKellar. James Knight, 1st Pacific’s chair, says Carlson and McKellar bring intimate knowledge of Landmark’s business and culture. “We anticipate that their expertise will help guide a successful transition and integration of Landmark’s management and operations,” Knight says. The deal should be finalized late this quarter or early in the third.

Carlson, a former chair and CEO of Landmark, is a 44-year veteran of San Diego’s banking business. Among the lenders he has run are Scripps Bank, Bank of Rancho Bernardo and La Jolla Bank & Trust. McKellar is president of Capella, a real estate development company. Since beginning his real estate career in 1971 he has managed the acquisition, entitlement, financing, design, construction and marketing of more than 5,000 homes, 1,600 apartment units, 3.4 million square feet of commercial office, research and development, and industrial space. McKellar was a founder of both Legacy and Scripps banks.

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Lucy von Buttlar

City National Bank has promoted Lucy von Buttlar to senior v.p. and manager of its San Diego Private Banking Services group. Von Buttlar, who joined City National last year from Wells Fargo Private Client Services, has 22 years of finance experience. Based in La Jolla, she reports to Tom Rogers, executive v.p. and manager of commercial and private banking services in the southern region.

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New to Linsco Private Ledger’s Chairman’s Council are Carlsbad financial planners Candace Bahr and John Baranowski. Less than 2 percent of all advisers earn the designation, which is based on production ranking of all registered advisers at LPL in 2006. The two were honored during LPL’s Master’s Council Conference at the Four Seasons Resort Lana’i at Manele Bay in Lana’i City, Hawaii. Linsco Private Ledger is the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer firm with a network of more than 7,200 financial advisers.

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Bob Adkins

Bob Adkins, president and CEO of Neighborhood National Bank, has been elected president of the San Diego Blood Bank’s board. Adkins has been a Blood Bank director since 2002. He joined Neighborhood National Bank in 2001. As the only African-American commercial bank president in San Diego County, the new position accords Adkins the honor as the first “blood” bank president to be the Blood Bank president.

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General Mortgage has assigned Julie Grove Miller to its Frensdorff Group as a senior loan consultant. She has 18 years of underwriting experience.

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Coley Davis, a chartered senior financial planner and investment adviser representative with ING Financial Partners, has been awarded the Seal of Trust from the National Ethics Bureau.

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California Bank and Trust has promoted Will Rivera to manager of the City Heights office. Rivera joined the bank in July 1997 and served in various capacities, most recently as a credit analyst at the Carmel Valley office.

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Donna Perricone has joined Cavignac and Associates as an account administrator. Previously, she was an account administrator with Barney & Barney.

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Silvergate Bank has made four executive level promotions. Kathleen Moore moves to v.p. of compliance, Joan Sibley to assistant v.p. of the commercial real estate group, Brandon Gadke to v.p. of the commercial real estate group and Ernestina Madrid to assistant v.p. of human resources.