Prominent banker finds a new post

Bruce Schultz, a well-known Gulf Coast banking executive, recently joined First Bank, a Clewiston-based community bank.

Schultz previously was Lee County market president for Stonegate Bank. Schultz helped engineer the sale of Fort Myers-based Southwest Capital Bank to Fort Lauderdale-based Stonegate in 2011. He left in April in the midst of management consolidation.

Prior to the sale to Stonegate, Schultz had been the president and CEO of Southwest Capital Bank and was an alumnus of SunTrust Bank in various posts on the Gulf Coast. His career in banking on the Gulf Coast has spanned 29 years.