Tiffany Kirk Joins Pinnacle Financial Partners to Further Atlanta Community Efforts

Pinnacle Financial Partners has welcomed Tiffany Kirk to its Atlanta office as a community development coordinator. Kirk joins the team with more than 17 years of banking industry experience with a heavy focus on community development. In this role, she will develop strategies and tactics for expanding the positive impact Pinnacle makes on the community. In overseeing Community Reinvestment Act activities for the firm , Kirk will build and expand programs to ensure Pinnacle’s service and advice are available to all, including low- to moderate-income communities.

“Tiffany’s vast experience will be instrumental in enhancing how Pinnacle serves our community,” said Rob Garcia, regional president of Atlanta for Pinnacle Financial Partners. “Pinnacle would not be where we are now without the relationships we’ve built and the support of the community, and we take our commitment to be a good neighbor seriously. Our mission says we will make a significant positive impact on the communities we serve, and Tiffany is a key part of that in Atlanta.”

Since joining Pinnacle, Kirk has helped launch the Minority Business Education program, which was created by Pinnacle’s Buckhead office leader, Jerry Banks. The series of seven classes teaches entrepreneurs the difference between personal and business credit, the components of financial and income statements, and how to build a strong team. In addition to her role, Kirk chairs the board of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, an affordable housing Community Development Financial Institution lender. Pinnacle partners with this program to administer down payment assistance funding and has already provided the organization with $2 million in capital to further its affordable housing efforts in the Atlanta area.

Prior to joining Pinnacle, Kirk worked with Regions Bank as a community development manager, where she oversaw 22 markets, ensuring satisfactory community development lending, investment and volunteer activities. She was also responsible for managing strategic community outreach partnerships with schools, government agencies, nonprofits and more.

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, and 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 expanded to Georgia in 2020 by hiring a team of local financial services professionals to start an office in Atlanta. The firm was named the No. 1 Best Place to Work, medium company category, by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2022.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $45.1 billion in assets as of March 31, 2023. 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.