Will Hodge Named Regional President in The Upstate

Pinnacle Financial Partners’ leadership team is growing with the addition of Will Hodge. He is now the regional president of the South Carolina Upstate market encompassing Greenville, Spartanburg, Easley, Mauldin and surrounding communities.

“Will brings a vast amount of experience to this role and will help us continue to build our firm,” said Rob Ellenburg, Pinnacle’s regional chairman. “Will has worked with the business community throughout the region for decades and brings that experience to his new role. This is a good move for our firm and great news for anyone in this region who wants a robust relationship with their bank.”

Will became Pinnacle’s area manager over middle market and commercial banking in the market in 2022 and has served the firm for six years. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the region, with commercial and private banking roles at SunTrust and Park Sterling Bank before joining Pinnacle. He has worked closely with Ellenburg and Blair Miller to lead the region for the past year. In his new role, he will assume the day-to-day responsibilities for leading the entire market.

“I’m honored to continue to serve our associates and clients in a larger capacity in this new role,” Hodge said. “Pinnacle is perfectly positioned to succeed because of its unique combination of distinctive client service and the resources to bank major industry players. It’s a values and relationship-based firm, a longtime partner to its clients and one of the best places to work anywhere in the country.”

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 $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.