Pinnacle Financial Partners Grows Equipment Finance Team

Pinnacle Financial Partners is pleased to announce that Trish Thiele and Quinn Antshel have joined Pinnacle’s equipment finance team.

Trish Thiele is a financial advisor assistant, supporting financial advisors and helping to serve equipment finance clients. She has more than 20 years of financial services experience and comes to Pinnacle most recently from Camber Road. Prior roles included serving as an equipment finance lead account manager at Wells Fargo and a sales representative at Alta Technologies, Inc.

Thiele graduated from the accounting program at Globe College of Business in Saint Paul, MN, as an accounting specialist.

“We’re excited to add Trish and her wealth of experience to the team,” said Kris Foster, president of equipment finance at Pinnacle. “She has a proven history of providing high levels of customer service and strong expertise in all facets of the documentation and funding process. In her role, Trish will help to build out equipment finance processes and infrastructure.”

Quinn Antshel is a credit advisor based at Pinnacle’s Refinery office in Charlotte, NC. With more than 25 years of experience, Quinn joins Pinnacle from Wells Fargo, where he served as vice president and senior credit underwriting officer. Previously, he was a business development officer and relationship manager for NCB Capital Impact.

Antshel earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University in New York.

“Quinn’s experience makes him a valuable addition to our equipment finance team,” said Mike Scheidt, senior credit officer for Pinnacle “His expertise in credit underwriting and portfolio management is critical to the continued growth and success of equipment finance and further enhances Pinnacle’s commitment to provide distinctive service and effective advice to our clients.”

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 2021 deposit data from the FDIC, is listed by Forbes among the top 25 banks in the nation and earned a spot on the 2021 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For® in the U.S., its fifth consecutive appearance. American Banker recognized Pinnacle as one of America’s Best Banks to Work For nine years in a row and No. 1 among banks with more than $11 billion in assets in 2021.

Pinnacle owns a 49 percent interest in Bankers Healthcare Group (BHG), which provides innovative, hassle-free financial solutions to healthcare practitioners and other licensed professionals. Great Place to Work and FORTUNE ranked BHG No. 4 on its 2021 list of Best Workplaces in New York State in the small/medium business category.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN, in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $38.5 billion in assets as of Dec. 31, 2021. As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in 15 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.