Mary Garcia

Mary Garcia serves as regional president for Pinnacle Financial Partners’ South Carolina Coastal region. Before Pinnacle’s acquisition of BNC Bancorp in 2017, Garcia was city executive for BNC’s Charleston market.

She began her financial services career in Charleston in 1986 with First Federal of South Carolina, where she was a commercial lender. Other roles included serving as a commercial team leader with SouthTrust Bank and as a senior commercial lender with responsibility for leadership and relationship coaching for Crescom Bank.

Garcia is a graduate of East Carolina University’s RMA School of Commercial Lending. She is also a graduate of the University of South Carolina’s Bankers School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Graduate School of Banking.

Garcia serves on the board and finance committee of the Charleston Regional Development Alliance and is on the board, executive committee and is finance chair of the Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic. She is a member of the finance committee for Christ our King Catholic Church and is past finance chair of St. Benedicts Catholic Church. Garcia served for nine years on the advisory board of Roper St. Francis, Bon Secours Hospital and is a distinguished past president of the East Cooper Kiwanis Club.