
Hancock Bank recently named two South Mississippi associates as senior vice presidents. Dawn Bastarache, recently named as retail delivery channel manager for Hancock Bank, is responsible for the strategy, effectiveness, and customer experience for all retail alternative delivery channels - including e-banking, mobile banking, interactive voice response customer interface (VRU), and ATM placement. In this [...] [...]
GULFPORT — Gulfport-based Hancock Bank saw a third quarter drop in loan demand but still generated triple-digit income growth over the previous quarter. Hancock Holding Co. reported third-quarter income of $14.9 million and a diluted earnings per share price of 40-cents. The net earnings marked a 129 percent surge from the second quarter, when net [...] [...]

Gautier resident Erin Majure Willcutt recently joined Hancock Bank as an assistant vice president and business banker for Jackson County. Formerly an officer with the local division of a large, national financial institution based in the Gulf South, Willcutt will manage relationships and comprehensive business banking services for Hancock commercial clients across the southeastern [...] [...]

Hancock Bank has named six new assistant vice presidents. Jessica M. Cuevas (Diamondhead Branch) is a native of Pass Christian, and manages operations at Hancock Bank’s Diamondhead branch. She began her Hancock Bank career 12 years ago as a teller. The Pass Christian High School graduate attended Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, and she holds [...] [...]

Hancock Bank has named four veteran banking and business leaders as retail market presidents for the South Mississippi regions they serve. John Keilholz, who began his Hancock Bank career in 1993, currently manages the company’s Northern Division, which comprises seven South Central Mississippi Hancock Bank financial centers and more than 70 employees. Keilholz earned a [...] [...]

Hancock Bank has promoted eight associates as new vice presidents of the 111-year-old financial services institution. Sherlyn Breland, Bay St. Louis Main Branch, is a Bay St. Louis native, a 44-year veteran of Mississippi financial services and a 26-year associate of Hancock Bank. She joined the company with the merger of Peoples Federal Savings and [...] [...]

During the 14th-annual Leo W. Seal Teacher Recognition Awards program, state leaders, veteran bankers and longtime Gulf Coast community leaders hailed the instructional expertise and prize-winning proposals of five outstanding teachers in Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and Lamar counties. Selected from more than 150 nominees in seven counties based on past and planned classroom teaching applications, [...] [...]

John Baxter’s family has employment ties to Hancock Bank dating to 1919, and that was a key reason he chose to join the Gulf Coast bank in 1996 — on the very day that happened to be the bank’s 96th anniversary. Baxter grew up in New Orleans and in Bay St. Louis, [...] [...]