Premier Financial Corp to Rel - GuruFocus com gurufocus.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gurufocus.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
David Sparacio
Premier Bank has announced the hiring of David Sparacio as senior vice president and chief accounting officer, a new position for the company.
Sparacio joins the bank from Memphis, Tenn.-based First Horizon Bank, which has approximately $84 billion in assets. He joined that bank via its acquisition of IBERIABANK in July 2020. He worked for the company nearly nine years, based out of Alabama, and most recently held the title of director of accounting operations.
Sparacio, who has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, also is a colonel in the finance corps of the U.S. Army Reserve.
Premier Bank poised to gain market share across Northern Ohio and beyond
Premier Bank poised to gain market share across Northern Ohio and beyond
Premier Bank CEO Gary Small is shown outside the institution s headquarters in Youngstown.
Had officials known a global health crisis would rattle the economy in 2020, they almost certainly would have paused on the merger that established Premier Financial Corp.
The Defiance-based holding company is the parent organization of Premier Bank, which is based in Youngstown. The dual headquarters are symbolic of the $473 million deal between the holding companies of Northern Ohio community banks First Federal Bank of the Midwest and Home Savings Bank which has been billed as a merger of equals and is about as close to one as it gets. That deal closed in January 2020.
Premier Bank names new chief information officer
Premier Bank names new chief information officer
Varun Chandhok
Premier Bank has hired Varun Chandhok as executive vice president and its latest chief information officer.
Chandhok fills a post last held by Doug Young, who joined The Home Savings and Loan Co. the banking subsidiary of the former United Community Financial Corp. in 2016.
UCFC merged with First Defiance Financial Corp., the Defiance-based parent company of First Federal Bank of the Midwest, to establish Premier Financial Corp., Premier Bank s Youngstown-based holding company.
Chandhok joins Premier from M&T Bank, where he most recently served as CIO – regulatory, risk, financial crimes and corporate technology and where he focused on strategic consolidation, architecture and capability evolution across multiple functions.
Feb 5, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN – Premier Bank has announced the Home Savings Charitable Foundation is now the Premier Bank Foundation. The announcement follows the company name change and the First Federal Bank of the Midwest and Home Savings Bank merger in 2020.
“Consistent with our other branding changes, the new identity of the Premier Bank Foundation aligns with our mission to continue supporting our communities with financial advice, leadership roles in our communities and financial support,” explained Gary Small, President, Premier Bank. “Over the past 30 years, the Foundation has provided over $19,000,000 to local organizations in the communities we call home and we are looking forward to continuing to serve all of our local communities through the Premier Bank Foundation.”