Pinnacle Financial Partners Equipment Finance Team Grows with Addition of Two Veteran Financial Professionals

Pinnacle Financial Partners continues to expand its equipment finance team with the hiring of two veteran financial services professionals: Anita Ball and Raven Sheehan. Ball serves as the equipment finance operations manager and is based at Pinnacle’s Birmingham office along with Sheehan, who is a financial advisor assistant.

“I’m very excited to add Anita and Raven’s experience to our growing team,” said Kris Foster, president of Pinnacle’s equipment finance group. “They both play critical roles in helping us build out our equipment finance operations group and how we process and fund business. They bring a vast amount of experience that will help us continue to grow and service our client base. It’s important to have leaders like these to help us deliver on our promise of distinctive service and effective advice.”

Ball brings over 30 years of banking experience to Pinnacle. She joins the firm from Regions Bank, where she most recently served as equipment finance fulfillment/operations manager. Prior to Regions she served in various operational and risk management roles with Sirote & Permutt, Protective Life Insurance Company and Synovus Mortgage.

Sheehan brings 11 years of experience to the firm from Regions Bank, where she most recently served as corporate fulfillment team manager for equipment finance. Other roles included equipment documentation paralender and small dollar loan document specialist. Sheehan earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Pinnacle Financial Partners provides a full range of banking, investment, trust, mortgage and insurance products and services designed for businesses and their owners and individuals interested in a comprehensive relationship with their financial institution. The firm is the No. 1 bank in the Nashville-Murfreesboro-Franklin MSA, according to 2022 deposit data from the FDIC, is listed by Forbes among the top 25 banks in the nation and earned a spot on the 2022 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For® in the U.S., its sixth consecutive appearance. American Banker recognized Pinnacle as one of America’s Best Banks to Work For 10 years in a row and No. 1 among banks with more than $11 billion in assets in 2022.

                Pinnacle owns a 49 percent interest in BHG Financial, which provides innovative, hassle-free financial solutions to healthcare practitioners and other professionals. Great Place to Work and FORTUNE have listed BHG as a best workplace in multiple categories since 2016.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN, in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $42.0 billion in assets as of December 31, 2022. As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in 17 primarily urban markets across the Southeast.

                Additional information concerning Pinnacle, which is included in the Nasdaq Financial-100 Index, can be accessed at www.pnfp.com.