Pinnacle Financial Partners Expands in Knoxville with Addition of Local Banking Leaders

Pinnacle Financial Partners’ team in Knoxville has added three respected industry veterans to serve corporate, commercial and small business clients. The additions of Financial Advisor Brandi Salyers, Financial Advisor Assistant Kirsten Burkett and Treasury Management Advisor Mindy Fiegle will expand Pinnacle’s ability to deliver distinctive service and effective advice to even more in this community.

“We hire the very best because that’s what our clients deserve, and these three are among the top tier of bankers in Knoxville,” said Mike DiStefano, Knoxville president. “Their extensive experience further deepens our team of remarkable local talent and will give us new opportunities to reach businesses who haven’t yet experienced the Pinnacle difference. We’re grateful they chose Pinnacle to make their new home.”

Salyers joins Pinnacle Financial Partners with 20 years of banking experience. She most recently served as commercial relationship manager at Regions Bank, as well as branch manager and assistant branch manager. Salyers is a graduate of the University of Tennessee where she earned her bachelor’s in business administration.

Burkett joins Pinnacle’s Knoxville office with comprehensive financial experience spanning more than three decades in the banking industry. Burkett comes to the firm from First Horizon Bank, where she spent 25 years as a client specialist focused on direct service and working closely with relationship managers to accommodate and identify client needs.

Fiegle brings more than 20 years of treasury services experience to Pinnacle. She knows first-hand what companies need from their treasury services and can deliver creative solutions. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as the director of treasury and accounts receivable for Radio Systems Corporation in Knoxville. She also served in a similar capacity for several other Knoxville area companies including The H.T. Hackney Company, Cineworld Group PLC and Discovery Communications. Mindy earned a bachelor’s in business administration finance from the University of Tennessee.

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 as No. 27 among America’s Best Banks, higher than any other bank headquartered in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia. Pinnacle also earned a spot on the 2023 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For® in the U.S., its seventh consecutive appearance and was recognized by American Banker 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 expanded to East Tennessee in 2007 by hiring a team of local financial services professionals to start an office in Knoxville. Pinnacle now operates five offices in Knox County, one in Oak Ridge and one in Maryville. The firm is the fourth-largest bank in the Knoxville MSA in terms of deposits.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN, in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $45.1 billion in assets as of March 31, 2023. As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in 17 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.