Fulton Financial Corp. said that Patrick S. Barrett will join the company and become its chief financial officer upon the retirement of Charles J. Nugent at the end of 2013. He will start Nov. 4 but will not assume the CFO role until January.<br /><br />Barrett comes to Fulton from SunTrust Banks, where he served most recently as the CFO of SunTrust Bank’s wholesale bank, a $66 billion asset platform of client businesses that includes corporate and investment banking, commercial and business banking, commercial real estate and treasury and payment solutions.<br /><br />Prior to joining SunTrust in 2010, Barrett worked with JPMorgan Chase & Co. where he held a number of senior finance/managing director roles in Asia. His last role with JPMorgan was deputy head/managing director of investor relations in New York.<br /><br />Before joining JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2003, Barrett spent 10 years with Deloitte & Touche as a financial services audit and advisory specialist in multiple offices in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.<br /><br />Lancaster-based Fulton (NASDAQ: FULT), which has $1.8 billion in deposits in the Philadelphia region, announced Nugent’s retirement in May. He joined the company in 1992 as CFO.<br /><br />The CFO switch comes on the heels of E. Philip Wenger succeeding the retiring R. Scott Smith Jr. as chairman and CEO of the company this past January.