Daniel Crosby Leads SBA Lending Team For Pinnacle Financial Partners

Pinnacle Financial Partners’ Daniel Crosby is now the SBA lending director for the firm. Prior to being appointed to this new role, Crosby served as Pinnacle’s SBA area manager leading loan origination efforts for the SBA team including sales, closing and construction. Prior to that he served as SBA underwriting and closing manager for the firm. Crosby has been with Pinnacle for seven years.

“Daniel is a top business leader who exemplifies our mission of providing distinctive service and effective advice to clients,” said Rick Callicutt, Pinnacle’s chairman for the Carolinas and Virginia. “Government guaranteed lending like SBA gives us the chance to help more small businesses, which are the heart of our local economies. Daniel is a well-respected veteran banking leader who brings deep knowledge of the space and will help us grow in how we can support smaller companies.”

Crosby leads a team of 36 associates including eight SBA financial advisors from across Pinnacle’s footprint:

• Doug Appleby, Greenville, SC
• Janet Matthew, Charleston, SC
• Sean Henneberger, Memphis, TN
• Calvin Martin, Knoxville, TN
• Chris Intemann, Raleigh, NC
• Eric Hicklin, Nashville, TN
• Stan Lamb, Charlotte, NC
• Claudia Wilson, Atlanta, GA

“Taking on this role is an opportunity I couldn’t refuse,” Crosby said. “My goal for the team over the next nine to 12 months is to create efficiencies and enhance our abilities to deliver that wow service to our clients.”

Prior to joining the firm, Crosby held roles at BNC Bank, TD Bank, Carolina First Bank and BB&T. Crosby earned a bachelor’s in business administration and accounting from Limestone University. He also holds an MBA from Charleston Southern University.

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 as No. 27 among America’s Best Banks, higher than any other bank headquartered in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia. Pinnacle also earned a spot on the 2023 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For® in the U.S., its seventh consecutive appearance and was recognized by American Banker 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 entered the South Carolina market in 2017 when it acquired BNC Bancorp, offering community bank service with the resources and sophistication of a larger firm. Pinnacle was named the No. 1 Top Workplace in South Carolina, midsize companies category, in 2022 and 2021 by Charleston Business Magazine, Greenville Business Magazine and Columbia Business Monthly, with top 10 finishes in 2019 and 2020.

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.