Adds Significant Public Company Governance
Experience
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
FB Financial Corporation (NYSE:FBK), the holding company for
Nashville-based FirstBank, has elected two new members to its board of
directors both of whom have significant public company governance
experience.
Joining the board are William F. Andrews, a former chairman of
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), who also served as president
of Massey Investment Co. and as a principal of Kohlberg & Company; and
Agenia Clark, CEO of the Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee, who was a
founding board member of a publicly-held bank in Nashville.
Andrews will chair the board’s audit committee, and Clark will be a
member of the compensation committee.
“Bill and Agenia are tremendously talented individuals who will bring
broad, complementary experience to the FB Financial Corporation board of
directors,” James W. Ayers, Chairman of the Board, said. “We are
extremely proud that they agreed to join our board, and I look forward
to working with them on our strategic initiatives.”
In addition to Ayers, other FB Financial Corporation board members
include Christopher T. Holmes, President and CEO of FirstBank and FB
Financial Corporation; Orrin H. Ingram, president and CEO of Ingram
Industries, Inc.; Ruth E. Johnson, Associate Vice President of Meharry
Medical College; and Stuart C. McWhorter, co-founder and chairman of
Clayton Associates.
During his long business career, Andrews has been chairman of seven
public companies and seven private companies, including CCA, Amdura
Corporation, Katy Industries, Scovill, Inc., and Singer Sewing Machine
Co. He has served on 20 public company boards and 16 private company
boards since his career began after a three-year tour in the U.S. Air
Force as a captain, pilot and squad commander. Currently, he is on the
boards of Harpeth Capital and Buffkin Group, both private companies in
Nashville.
Clark was vice president of human resources for the Tennessee Education
Lottery Corp. prior to becoming president and CEO of the Girls Scouts of
Middle Tennessee in 2004. She also was senior director of human
resources at Vanderbilt University. Her board experience includes Avenue
Bank, the Governor’s Healthier Tennessee Foundation, and as former
member of the Tennessee Board of Regents and former board chairman of
the Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee. Clark is also on the board of the
Ayers Foundation, the Ayers family’s philanthropic organization. She has
been recognized with several awards for her civic leadership including
2015 and 2016 “Nashville 100 Most Powerful.”
About FB Financial Corporation
FB Financial Corporation (NYSE: FBK) is a bank holding company
headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. FB Financial operates through its
wholly owned banking subsidiary, FirstBank, the third largest
Tennessee-headquartered bank, with 45 full-service bank branches across
Tennessee, North Alabama and North Georgia, and a national mortgage
business with offices across the Southeast. FirstBank serves five of the
largest metropolitan markets in Tennessee and has approximately $3.2
billion in total assets.
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Source: FB Financial Corporation