Pinnacle Financial Partners Remains Top Workplace in Knoxville
“Pinnacle strives to the best workplace in the Southeast, and awards like this show we are right on target,” said Mike DiStefano, the firm’s regional president in Knoxville. “Our founders were intentional about creating a culture centered on people and built on values that drive engagement, ownership and equity. Our associates stay true to those origins every day, and that’s why we’ve earned awards like this in nearly every market we serve. I am very proud of their commitment to each other.”
Pinnacle's retention rate of 94 percent in the Knoxville region is a evidence of the firm's commitment to creating an environment where associates love to come to work every day.
The Top Workplaces list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by research partner Energage, LCC, a leading provider of technology-based employee engagement tools. The anonymous survey measures several aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution and connection, among other benchmarks.
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.
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