Jason Sullivan Joins Pinnacle to Lead New Office in Huntsville

Firm expands reach with three new associates and full-service office

Pinnacle Financial Partners, a bank based in Nashville, TN, is expanding its team, services and reach in the Huntsville area with the addition of a new full-service office and three new client-facing associates. The office will be led by Jason Sullivan and replace the temporary space the team now operates from. It is expected to open this summer.

“Expanding our reach will allow Pinnacle to better serve clients in Huntsville and Northern Alabama,” said Jason Baldwin, regional manager for Pinnacle in Huntsville. “Our client experience is already distinctly different, and now it will be more complete with full-service capabilities, including all deposit products and services.”

The new office will be located at 409 Madison Street and will include the retail office on the first floor and offices and conference rooms for financial advisors and support associates on the second. It is tentatively scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2022.

Sullivan comes to Pinnacle with more than 15 years of financial services experience, most recently from Wells Fargo in Huntsville, where he was a branch manager. His career has also included time as a retail manager. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from University of Mississippi and is a member of the Alabama Bankers Association.

Other additions to Pinnacle’s new team include Megan Woodrick, a financial specialist, and Susan Chuang, a client service advisor.

Woodrick joined Pinnacle from BBVA in Huntsville, where she was a personal banker, bringing five years of financial services experience to her role at Pinnacle. Other past roles include lead branch associate. Woodrick attended Northeast Alabama Community College.

Chuang has more than 25 years of financial services experience, serving most recently as retail relationship banker at BBVA in Huntsville. Her other roles at BBVA included financial sales advisor. Chuang also served as a personal banker and regional bank private banker at Wells Fargo, senior financial specialist at Wachovia bank and customer service representative for SouthTrust bank in Huntsville. She earned a bachelor’s in finance from Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.

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 2021 deposit data from the FDIC, and is listed by Forbes among the top 25 banks in the nation. Pinnacle earned a spot on FORTUNE's 2021 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For® in the U.S., its fifth consecutive appearance. American Banker recognized Pinnacle as one of America’s Best Banks to Work For nine years in a row and No. 1 among banks with more than $11 billion in assets in 2021.

Pinnacle entered Alabama in the summer of 2021 by hiring a team of local financial services professionals to open offices in Huntsville and Birmingham.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN, in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $38.5 billion in assets as of Dec. 31, 2021. As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in 15 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.