Trang Nguyen-Do and Bob Madeja Are Among 4 Additions to Pinnacle

Trang Nguyen-Do and Bob Madeja Are Among 4 Additions to Pinnacle's National Capital Region

February 22, 2022

Accomplished financial services professional Trang Nguyen-Do and veteran credit advisor Bob Madeja have joined the National Capital Region team of Pinnacle Financial Partners, a bank based in Nashville, TN. Both are working in temporary offices with the team and will be moving to a permanent location later this year.

“Our intention is to recruit the best talent in the area to build out our team here,” said Regional President Carolyne Pelton. “Trang and Bob have decades of experience, most of it in this market, and the wisdom necessary to be trusted advisors to our clients. People choose to bank with Pinnacle because the firm hires only experienced associates who have a heart for service and enjoy giving clients a distinctly different experience than they’ve had with other banks. Our team is built with that in mind.”

Joining Pinnacle along with Nguyen-Do and Madeja are:

  • Anjum Saeed, treasury management analyst
  • Erica Findlay, financial advisor assistant

Nguyen-Do brings 25 years of financial services experience to her role, most recently as senior vice president and commercial relationship manager at Atlantic Union Bank in Northern Virginia. She has also served in business and commercial banking roles at BB&T, CapitalOne and SunTrust, now Truist. Nguyen is fluent in French and Vietnamese.

Madeja comes to Pinnacle from Truist, where he was senior vice president and portfolio manager for the aerospace, defense and government contracting industry segment. He has more than 40 years of financial services experience, including roles at BB&T, PNC, Mellon and Coopers & Lybrand.

Saeed brings 15 years of financial services experience to his role, most recently as a business deposits specialist at Truist in McLean, VA. He has also worked for BB&T in Arlington, VA. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University.

Findlay joins Pinnacle from Truist in McLean, VA, where her specialty was financial services for government contracting and where she led a team of three corporate banking services assistants. Findlay has more than 20 years of experience in financial services, including roles at Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania in McLean, VA.

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, and is listed by Forbes among the top 25 banks in the nation. The firm 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 entered the National Capital Region in November 2021 by recruiting six local financial services professionals to open an office in Northern Virginia.

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.