Willard B. Soper, a former mortgage industry executive who held top positions with MidCoast Credit Corp., Melville, N.Y., and J.I. Kislak Mortgage, Miami Lakes, Fla., in the mid-1990s, is the new president of Savings Bank of Maine, Gardiner, Maine. Soper is part of an investor group, SBM Financial Inc., that has agreed to recapitalize the thrift; it had been operating under a cease and desist order from the Office of Thrift Supervision because of undercapitalization. The new chairman and chief executive is John W. Everets, the former CEO of GE/HPSC. Among the members of the new board of directors are David J. Ott, former chief banking officer of Banknorth and Richard D. Field, a co-founder of Lending Tree.
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