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Professional Bank hires First Republic alum; Hanmi names director

S&P Global Market Intelligence presents a daily roundup of management and board changes in the bank and thrift industry. This feature excludes C-level leadership changes and stories previously covered by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

* C.R. Cloutier resigned as a director of Lafayette, La.-based MidSouth Bancorp Inc.

Cloutier was president and CEO of the company.

* Florida-based Professional Bank named Roland Valdivieso senior vice president and market leader for West Palm Beach.

He most recently served as a senior relationship manager at First Republic Bank.

Professional Bank is a subsidiary of Professional Holding Corp.

* Scott Diehl was appointed to the boards of Los Angeles-based Hanmi Financial Corp. and subsidiary Hanmi Bank.

Diehl is a 34-year veteran of the banking and financial industry, having spent his entire career at Wells Fargo Capital Finance Inc. and its predecessor corporation, Foothill Capital Corp. Before his retirement in 2017, he was a group head overseeing the factoring, receivable securitization and supply chain finance lending units.

* Zahid Afzal resigned as a director of Youngstown, Ohio-based United Community Financial Corp.

This is in connection with his upcoming employment as executive vice president and COO of the company and unit Home Savings Bank.