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Gerald B. Alt has been named chief operating officer for LOGS Financial Services Inc. in Northbrook, Illinois. Jim Maher has been appointed executive chairman and Mark Schwarzmann has been appointed chief executive officer of AllFinanz in Richmond, Virginia. William C. Beiler has been named

executive vice president and chief credit officer of Raymond James Bank FSB in St. Petersburg, Florida. William D. Dallas has been elected chairman of Affinity Corporation in West Hills, California.

Carlene J. Lodeski has been named executive vice president of marketing and consulting for Eborrower in Vancouver, Washington. Brian Hale has been appointed executive vice president of national production--consumer markets division and David F. Robinson has been named senior vice president--builder division for Calabasas, California-based Countrywide Home Loans Inc.

Mark A. Smith has been named global head of Ernst & Young LLP's Real Estate Advisory Services Group in New York. Alan K. McCall has been appointed state counsel for Florida in the Winter Park, Florida, office of Santa Ana, California-based First American Title Insurance Company. Jesse Chancellor has been appointed a principal of Prudential Mortgage Capital Company in McLean, Virginia. Fred Matera has been named managing director of Greenwich Capital Markets in Greenwich, Connecticut. Maureen L. McAvey has been named senior resident fellow for urban development at the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in Washington, D.C.

Maynard Ahner has been named director of Shared Servicing[SM] and technology outsourcing and Kevin Donahue has been named vice president of special servicing for Midland Loan Services Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri. Michael McFadden has been appointed vice president--national accounts manager for Houston-based Stewart Mortgage Information (SMI). Charles C. Mai has been promoted to vice president, client services manager, for SAFECO SELECT Insurance Services in Santa Ana, California.

Frederick E. Pepper has been appointed vice president and agency manager for Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and North and South Dakota in the Lansing, Michigan, office of Richmond, Virginia-based Land-America Financial Group Inc. Dorie G. Mollica has been appointed vice president and manager of the Manchester, New Hampshire, office for Richmond, Virginia-based Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company and Lawyers Title Insurance Company. Peter Totter has been named assistant vice president for M. Robert Goldman and Company of New Jersey Inc., in Millburn, New Jersey.

Charles D. Menke has been named regional president of Central Missouri for UMB Bank in Columbia, Missouri. Thomas Sang has been appointed regional vice president of the Midwest region for Wilmington National Finance Inc. in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Tammy Thompson has been promoted to manager, settlement service/title division, and Judy Gumash has been promoted to manager, quality relations division, for CFA Real Estate Network in Pittsburgh. Scott Backy has been appointed production manager--Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado, for the Alliance Division of Irvine, California-based Option One Mortgage Corporation.

Barbara K. Armstrong, Debra Fabian, Shelley N. Stamper and Galen Burson have been appointed wholesale account executives for National City's home equity unit in Cleveland. Jennifer Torres has been named assistant treasurer and senior mortgage underwriter, retail lending department, for Interchange Bank in Saddle Brook, New Jersey.

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