Sawyer will be responsible for administration and growth of the market's client portfolio as well as development of the bank's fiduciary account area.

Sawyer joins Gibraltar from his role as president at Nason Consulting, a bank consulting company that provides strategic, operational, regulatory, management, staff and market guidance to community banks. He has also served as an executive vice president at BankUnited for eight years and for 21 years at SunTrust Bank - most recently as executive vice president of retail.

As of July 31, 2013, assets under management in Gibraltar’s private wealth management division were at $540 million.