Pinnacle Financial Partners Expands Knoxville Team with Addition of Two Veteran Financial Services Professionals

Pinnacle Financial Partners has strengthened its Knoxville team with two standout additions at the Knoxville Northshore office: Ken Richardson, joining as a financial advisor, and Dasan Dix, joining as a treasury management manager. Together they bring decades of experience, deep local relationships and a shared passion for serving Knoxville’s rapidly growing business community.

Richardson joins the firm with 23 years of banking experience. Nineteen of those years were spent at First Citizens Bank, where he served as area vice president and East Tennessee area executive. His background advising clients, leading regional teams and cultivating long-standing community partnerships makes him a powerful addition to Pinnacle’s momentum in Knoxville.

Dix brings 17 years of experience helping businesses improve liquidity, manage risk and strengthen cash flow through strategic treasury solutions. Prior to joining Pinnacle, he served as a treasury management relationship manager at Regions. His track record includes designing custom solutions for hundreds of regional clients and guiding organizations across a wide mix of industries and sectors.

“Ken and Dasan display the kind of leadership Pinnacle is known for attracting,” said Andy Beam, senior lending officer for Pinnacle Financial Partners. “Both of them are deeply rooted in this community, understand the heartbeat of Knoxville’s business landscape and bring an energy and expertise that will immediately elevate what we’re able to offer across the market. We’re thrilled to welcome them and build on our momentum across East 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 2025 deposit data from the FDIC. Pinnacle is No. 9 on FORTUNE magazine’s 2025 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For® in the U.S., its ninth consecutive appearance and was recognized by American Banker as one of America’s Best Banks to Work For 12 years in a row and No. 1 among banks with more than $10 billion in assets in 2024.

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 third-largest bank in the Knoxville MSA in terms of deposits. The firm was recognized as the No.1 Top Workplace, mid-size category by Knox News in 2025 for seven of the last eight years.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN, in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $56.0 billion in assets as of Sept. 30, 2025. As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in several 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.