Pinnacle Celebrates New Office Opening in Raleigh Wakefield

Pinnacle Celebrates New Office Opening in Raleigh Wakefield

Mark Marley to lead the firm's newest Triangle-area location

June 12, 2023

Pinnacle Financial Partners opened its new retail office in Raleigh, NC, at 13341 Falls of Neuse Road. The two-story building sits a few miles from Wake Forest, where many of the 12 associates at this office live and now work. This is the firm’s 11th location in the Triangle region.

“Like everything we do, this office was designed to make it easy for our clients to do business,” said Mark Carlton, Pinnacle’s regional president for Eastern North Carolina. “This new space increases our reach in the market so more people can experience our culture of distinctive service and effective advice. That’s what our community expects and deserves, and now we can bring it to even more of our neighbors who live and work here.”

The team based at the new office includes:

Consumer and Small Business Banking

  • Mark Marley, office leader
  • Adrian Driggers, financial specialist
  • Teresa Gonzalez, financial specialist
  • Elizabeth Espinosa, client service advisor
  • Ron Lancaster, financial advisor
  • Christopher Beaver, financial advisor

Middle Market and Commercial Business Banking

  • Scott Stuchel, financial advisor
  • Matt Robinson, financial advisor
  • Larry Davis, financial advisor
  • Stuart Chambers, credit advisor
  • Sherry Barbour, financial advisor assistant
  • Kim Aspden, financial advisor assistant

This new office has the firm’s distinctive contemporary architectural style. The interior space includes two conference rooms, client service areas and Pinnacle’s signature water wall. The exterior includes drive-thru lanes with an ATM and night drop box. The architect on the project is Hanbury based in Norfolk, VA with an office in Raleigh and the contractor is Sterling Pillar based in Morrisville, NC.

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 entered the North Carolina market in 2017 when it acquired BNC Bancorp, offering community bank service with the resources and sophistication of a larger firm. Pinnacle is ranked as the No. 1 workplace in the Triad, Triangle and Charlotte markets, as listed by the Triad Business Journal, Triangle Business Journal and Charlotte Observer.

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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