Experience

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  BankSouth

  • Greensboro, Georgia, United States

  • Chief Banking Officer

    • Jan 2024 - Present
    • Greensboro, Georgia, United States

    Responsible for leading, managing, and growing the retail, small business, commercial banking and marketing components across a geographically distributed community bank network. Responsible for developing strategy, setting goals, and implementing changes to drive growth, profitability, efficiency, and compliance in a high tech and high touch client environment.

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  Synovus

  • United States
  • Financial Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Executive Director/Group Executive, Enterprise Risk

    • 2018 - Aug 2022

    Recruited by and repoted to the Chief Risk Officer for this publicly traded financial services company (NYSE: SNV) with $56 Billion in total assets. Responsible for all elements of bank risk including Strategic, Reputation, Market, Liquidity, Credit, Operational, Compliance, BSA/AML/OFAC, Litigation, and Capital. Responsible for managing risk appetite, risk measurement, and risk reporting. Also responsible for Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) system, issue management, and policy governance. Managed both enterprise risk and operational risk teams. Regular reporting to and strong relationship with regulators.

  • Group Executive, Community Banking

    • 2017 - 2018

    Promoted to corporate role in Community Banking responsible for working with 29 Synovus bank divisions in all aspects of commercial banking. Included oversight of product and pricing strategy, credit and risk, sales management, and coordination of marketing/business development activities.

  • CEO, Northwest Georgia Division

    • 2012 - 2017

    Named CEO of the newly formed Northwest Georgia Division of Synovus, the first Synovus consolidation of multiple brands. Led merger integration of three Synovus banks - Citizens First Bank, Georgia Bank & Trust and Cohutta Banking Company. Successfully reduced expenses by over $500 million.

  • President/CEO of Citizens First Bank, a division of Synovus

    • 2008 - 2012

    Promoted to CEO responsible for all facets of bank including market strategy, annual business plan and budget, sales targets, financial performance, credit performance, regulatory relations, and board of director reporting. Led the bank through the global recession in 2008-2009 including significant expense reduction efforts and credit mitigation strategies. Co-chaired Synovus company-wide process redesign work to completely overhaul deposit and loan account opening processes for both retail and commercial products.

  • Executive Vice President

    • 2006 - 2008

    Promoted to EVP responsible for oversight of retail banking, private client services, and bank operations. Also responsible for bank-wide business development efforts and sales targets.

  • Vice President, Private Banking

    • 2000 - 2006

    Hired to build a private wealth department from inception at Synovus’ independently-chartered Citizens First Bank. Responsible for leading significant growth in private wealth management. Received designation of Private Client Services Accredited Advisor.

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  Floyd Medical Center / Harbin Clinic

  • Rome, Georgia, United States

  • Director Of Managed Care

    • 1993 - 2000
    • Rome, Georgia, United States

    For this 304-bed hospital and 130+ physician multi-specialty clinic, oversaw transition from fee-for-service to managed care contracting. Responsible for negotiating contracts with all major insurance companies, enhancement of profitability of payer contracts and day-to-day administration of contracts.

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  Read, Martin, Slickman & Sheats CPAs

  • Rome, Georgia, United States

  • Certified Public Accountant

    • 1989 - 1992
    • Rome, Georgia, United States

    Worked in audit and tax for this leading regional accounting firm. Worked with a wide variety of clients including companies in banking, healthcare, and manufacturing industries as well as governmental agencies.