Florida Banking April 2023

PERSONAL TRANSACTIONS

PROMOTIONS / NEW HIRES ATLANTA

directly with clients, attorneys, and trust officers to build and maintain client relationships, identify client issues, and develop sound solutions. Frost obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from University of South Florida, Tampa, and her Master of Science degree in accounting and taxation from Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Florida and a Certified Professional through the Society of Human Resource Management. Frost currently holds memberships in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Florida Institute of CPAs (FICPA).

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta announced the appointment of Joseph (Joe) Davidson as senior vice president of its Supervision and Regulation (S&R) Division, effective February 16. Davidson will oversee the Atlanta Fed’s supervision of

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state member banks, bank and financial holding companies, and U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banking operations. Davidson will report to Atlanta Fed president and CEO Raphael Bostic, and serve as a member of the bank’s Executive Leadership Committee. He will also serve on the Federal Reserve System’s Supervision Committee. Davidson comes to the Atlanta Fed from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he had served as senior vice president of the Seventh District’s S&R Division since 2018. In that role, he reported to S&R’s executive vice president and oversaw the division’s talent management, finance, business operations and analytics, quality management, conflicts of interest, applications and enforcement, and technology and records management functions. He joined the Federal Reserve in 1999 as a retail payments analyst in Chicago and later served as a compliance and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) examiner and managing examiner. He was promoted to assistant vice president of consumer compliance and CRA in 2010, and then to vice president in 2012. Davidson has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. Davidson will fill the leadership responsibilities held by Supervision, Regulation, and Credit senior vice president Doris Quiros, who retired at the end of March.

Jessica Smith has joined Sanibel Captiva Community Bank as a compliance assistant in the bank’s compliance department, located in the Bridge Branch. She is responsible for assisting the compliance officer with the day-to-day compliance

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management system program, including compliance monitoring to ensure that bank policies and practices are in accordance with federal and state regulations. Smith has prior experience working in retail banking, customer service and office management.

NAPLES

The Naples Trust Company announced the addition of Kristian R. Jhamb , CFA, senior vice president, senior portfolio manager to the investment

management team. He will be responsible for monitoring client portfolios, analyzing investment opportunities, and advising his clients on activities that will help them meet their financial goals. Jhamb is an experienced professional with more than 20 years of diverse domestic and international investment expertise, conducting deep fundamental research across sectors, cycles, asset classes, and geographies. His most recent position was as a portfolio manager and senior strategist for Lone Star Capital, a macro fund based in Hong Kong. Prior to that role, he was an equity analyst researching large cap banks at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods of San Francisco and New York, and earlier, an equity research analyst responsible for the consumer and media sectors at J.P. Morgan. Jhamb began his career in fixed income research and proprietary trading at Bank of America in New York on the high yield desk. He holds an MBA in finance, accounting, and economics from the University of Chicago’s Booth School, a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics following studies at Dartmouth College, and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Jhamb

FORT MYERS

The Sanibel Captiva Trust Company announced the addition of Laura A. Frost , CPA, SHRM-CP as director of operations. Frost will oversee the client services and trust operations department companywide and is responsible for cash management

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and reporting of client accounts, as well as communication and collaboration with clients’ key external advisors. Frost has an extensive background in client service in relation to income taxation for estates, trusts and individuals. She has sound knowledge of fiduciary law, estate taxes, wealth management, and wealth management planning, financial planning, and tax planning. Prior to joining The Trust Company, Frost served at Hughes Snell & Co PA in Fort Myers, serving as tax manager. She managed a robust department and collaborated

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