Pinnacle Financial Partners Grows in the National Capital Region with Addition of Three Veteran Banking Professionals

Pinnacle Financial Partners is expanding its team in the National Capitol Region with the addition of financial advisor Scott Fisher and financial advisor assistants Amira Aly and Ciara Hodge. They come to Pinnacle with more than 30 years of combined financial services experience.

“We’re excited to be growing our team,” said Ken Ayers, Pinnacle’s area manager for the National Capital Region. As we continue to seek out the most talented, experienced bankers in the region, it’s important to have leaders like these to help us deliver on our promise of distinctive service and effective advice.”

Fisher brings 30 years of experience and joins Pinnacle from Truist, where he served as a commercial banker. Prior to that, he worked as a business services officer and market leader at BB&T. He also served in numerous leadership roles at First Virginia Bank where he started his banking career. Fisher earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Radford University. 

Aly has 14 years of experience and joins Pinnacle from Truist where she worked as a commercial client specialist, account manager and loan officer.  Previously she worked as a financial consultant at the World Bank Treasury Headquarters in Washington DC. Aly earned her bachelor’s in accounting from Cairo University in Egypt and her MBA in Management from Strayer University. Aly is fluent in Arabic.

Hodge has 20 years of banking experience and joins Pinnacle from Capital One Bank where she was a senior support specialist for the Southeast and Northeast region. Prior to that she was an assistant branch manager and helped with the infrastructure of retail branches in the Mid-Atlantic region. Hodge graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Maryland.

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 2021 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 nine years in a row and No. 1 among banks with more than $11 billion in assets in 2021.

Pinnacle entered the National Capital Region in November 2021 by recruiting six local financial services professionals to open an office in Northern Virginia.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN, in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $39.4 billion in assets as of March 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.