Huntington Bancshares announced Tizu Menelik will serve as Huntington's managing director of commercial specialty banking. Menelik spent nearly six years at Cincinnati-based Fifth Third, where she served as managing director and group head of diversified industries and international corporate banking. Menelik - who succeeds David Stone, who is retiring - will work from Charlotte, North Carolina.

She will be responsible for health care, franchise, and technology and telecommunications lending as well as mid-corporate banking, sponsor finance and international trade finance. Before joining Fifth Third in February 2017, Menelik served as head of global loan products for the United States and Canada at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Huntington also announced the appointment of Hitesh Mehta as corporate treasurer.

Mehta joined Huntington from the $125 billion-asset MUFG Union Bank in San Francisco, where he worked 16 years, the final year as corporate treasurer. Mehta takes the place of Derek Meyer, who joined the $37 billion-asset Associated Banc-Corp in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as chief financial officer in August.