Ron Lancaster and Jon DeHart Join Pinnacle Financial Partners

Pinnacle Financial Partners has added significant experience and expertise in the Triangle by bringing financial advisor Ron Lancaster and mortgage advisor Jon DeHart on board. Lancaster is based at the firm’s Raleigh Falls of Neuse office while DeHart works in the Chapel Hill office on Martin Luther King Boulevard.

“Ron and Jon are two of the most knowledgeable professionals in the market,” said Mark Carlton, Pinnacle’s regional president for eastern North Carolina. “They bring a vast amount of efficiency, consistency and depth of knowledge that will help us continue to build our firm, our team and deliver distinctive service to our clients.”

Lancaster brings 30 years of financial services experience and joins Pinnacle from Truist, where he served as senior vice president and area leader. Prior to that, he worked as a branch leader at BB&T.

Lancaster earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He serves on the board for Kerr YMCA in North Raleigh and is a past board member for the Wake Forest Chamber.

DeHart joins Pinnacle with 30 years of experience in the mortgage industry and comes most recently from Movement Mortgage, where he was branch leader. Previously he was a regional sales manager for Victorian Finance, branch sales manager at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and branch manager for National City Mortgage.

DeHart earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and government from North Carolina State University, is passionate about serving the community and has served in various leadership roles on multiple local boards and committees.

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 among the top 25 banks in the nation and earned a spot on the 2022 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For® in the U.S., its sixth consecutive appearance. American Banker recognized Pinnacle 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 North Carolina market in 2017 when it acquired BNC Bancorp, offering community bank service with the resources and sophistication of a larger firm. Pinnacle is ranked as the No. 1 workplace in the Triad, Triangle and Charlotte markets, as listed by the Triad Business Journal, Triangle Business Journal and Charlotte Observer.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN, in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $42.0 billion in assets as of September 31, 2022. As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in 15 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.