Long-time Triad Financial Professional Yates Parker Joins Pinnacle Financial Partners

Yates Parker has joined Pinnacle Financial Partners as a senior vice president and financial advisor supporting Pinnacle’s client advisory team. He is based at the firm’s Winston-Salem loan production office on Creekshire Way.

Parker comes to Pinnacle from First National Bank, where he was a business banker serving clients in the Triad region. Before that, he spent 14 years with Newbridge Bank in a variety of roles including business banker, commercial relationship manager, business development manager and branch operations manager.

“Yates has spent his entire career in this community helping people grow their businesses with first-class service and advice,” said Stewart Holmes, Pinnacle’s area manager in Winston-Salem. “He is a perfect fit for what Pinnacle wants to accomplish in the Triad. We are quickly becoming the workplace of choice for the best bankers in our market, and Yates is just the latest example. He is an exceptional addition to our team.”

Parker earned his bachelor’s degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and master’s degree from Duke University in Durham. He has served locally on the board for the Rotary Club of Kernersville, and participated on the executive team of the American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Walk.

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 earned a place on FORTUNE’s 2017 and 2018 lists of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in the U.S., and American Banker recognized Pinnacle as one of America’s Best Banks to Work For six years in a row.

Pinnacle entered the North Carolina market in 2017 when it acquired BNC Bancorp, known locally as Bank of North Carolina. Pinnacle continues BNC’s practice of offering community bank service with the resources and sophistication of a larger firm.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $24.0 billion in assets as of June 30, 2018. As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in 11 primarily urban markets in Tennessee, the Carolinas and Virginia.

Additional information concerning Pinnacle, which is included in the NASDAQ Financial-100 Index, can be accessed at www.pnfp.com.