Tony Thompson

Tony Thompson is an area manager for Blount County. He is based at the firm’s Maryville, TN office.

Before coming to Pinnacle in 2015, Thompson spent his entire career at First Tennessee Bank, where he was an executive vice president and commercial banking manager, providing leadership for business and commercial banking units. Additional roles included serving as market president for First Tennessee’s Middle and East Tennessee markets and community president in Maryville. Thompson began his career with the commercial and retail training program at Knoxville’s Valley Fidelity Bank, which was acquired by First Tennessee in 1991.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee and has completed studies at Louisiana State University – School of Banking of the South, the Tennessee Bankers Association Commercial Lending School and its Advanced School of Commercial Lending.

Thompson serves as the board chair for Leadership Blount, as well as serving on the board of directors of the Blount County Chamber, the Areawide Development Corporation and the Blount Memorial Foundation.