Feb 14 (Reuters) - Bank of America ( BAC ) has hired

JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ) veteran Mike Marino as the Georgia market

executive of its private bank, according to an internal memo

seen by Reuters on Friday.

Marino, with over three decades of banking experience, was

at JPMorgan since 1999. He was most recently the vice chairman

of South Atlantic region at JPMorgan Private Bank, where he

oversaw the growth of the ultra high net worth and family office

business segments across the region.

He is set to join Bank of America ( BAC ) in late-April, the company

said.

(Reporting by Prakhar Srivastava in Bengaluru and Saeed Azhar

in New York)