We define the private banking experience by the quality of our relationships. Our clients benefit from direct access to key decision makers who are highly-responsive to their individual or business needs. Our private banking and trust services span three main areas. Each is available on stand-alone or an integrated basis.
- Private Banking
- Trust
- Wealth Management
Executive Bios
GAYLON LAWRENCE, JR.
Vice Chairman
Gaylon carries on a long tradition of banking that goes back to 1908 with family-owned Farmers Bank & Trust in Blytheville, Arkansas. He has been involved in banking on a variety of levels since 1984. He also maintains interests in the family's Mississippi and Missouri agricultural operations. In 2003, he moved to Tennessee with plans to start Tennessee Bank & Trust because of Middle Tennessee's exceptional business climate.
"I wanted to create a different kind of bank for Middle Tennessee. A bank where the people we employed, the environment we built and the customer service we offered was not found anywhere else. I'm proud to say we've built that kind of bank."
STEVE BELL
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Bell began his banking career in 1973 with Piggott State Bank in Piggott, Arkansas. He attended Arkansas State University and is a graduate of the Banking School of the South at Louisiana State University. In 1983, he was hired by Farmers Bank & Trust in Blytheville, Arkansas as Vice President of Operations. Over the last 20 years, Steve has held various leadership positions at Farmers Bank and in 1998, he was named President and COO. In 2003, Steve relocated to Franklin, TN, to begin start-up operations for Tennessee Bank & Trust. In January 2006, he was named Chairman and CEO of the parent company. Steve is a member of the Franklin Business Leadership Council and a 2006 graduate of Leadership Franklin.
DAN ANDREWS, JR.
President, Nashville Market
A native of Dickson, TN, Dan graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1979, with a BS in Economics. He began his banking career with Nashville City Bank where he went on to serve as Vice President at Commerce Union Bank in their regional Middle Market Lending Area. He graduated from the Stonier School of Banking (University of Pennsylvania) in the mid 80's. In 1988, AmSouth asked Dan to start its new Corporate Loan office in Nashville, where he headed up that division as Senior Vice President until it was folded into AmSouth's new Tennessee charter in 1994 where he served as Head of Commercial Lending. In 1999, he left banking and bought a small business (Crown Tent and Awning) where he ran the day to day operations until he was asked to return to the banking world in 2005 as Executive Vice President of Tennessee Bank & Trust. He oversaw the renovation and construction of TB&T's new Green Hills site in the former Davis Kidd Booksellers location and has been President of the Nashville market since 2006.
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