Ken Davis, Renasant Bank (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 254)
During the PPP loan application crush, Renasant Bank took a community approach, accepting and approving loan applications from both current customers and non-customers alike. By serving their community in a crisis, Ken Davis and his team endeared themselves to scores of business owners. Ken joined the show to discuss this work and how it reflects Renasant’s long-held philosophy of service. The host of “North Fulton Business Radio” is John Ray, and the show is produced virtually by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.
Ken Davis, Renasant Bank, North Georgia Region Community & Business Banking President
Ken Davis has 30+ years of experience in the finance and banking industry. After graduation from college and serving six years in the U.S. Army, Ken returned to his hometown of Atlanta to begin his banking career. Prior to joining Renasant Bank, Ken served as an executive banker at other regional banks with responsibility to increase both commercial and consumer loan and deposit share in North Metro Atlanta. Davis earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest University and is a graduate of the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
Active in the community, Ken is a member of the Rotary Club of Roswell and serves as President of Roswell Economic Development & Tourism, Inc. In addition, he currently serves on the Board of Directors for the North Fulton Community Charities and the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. He has served as past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce and is a graduate of Leadership Gwinnett.
He has served on the boards of Georgia Ensemble Theatre, North Metro Miracle League, March of Dimes of North Fulton, the Ed Isakson Alpharetta YMCA and the Chattahoochee Nature Center.
Ken and his wife, Miriam, have three grown daughters and two grandchildren.
Renasant Bank
Thirty years before Elvis Presley’s birth put Tupelo, Mississippi, on the map, a group of prominent businessmen from Lee County joined together to form The Peoples Bank & Trust Company, which would one day become Renasant Bank. Through perseverance, leadership, and commitment to their communities, Renasant Bank has withstood the Bankers’ Panic of 1907, the 1929 National Bank Holiday” along with many economic cycles. In 2010 and 2011, Renasant acquired Crescent Bank and Trust of Jasper and American Bank and Trust of Roswell through FDIC banking transactions. This gave Renasant 13 locations in the North Georgia and suburban Atlanta markets. In 2016, Renasant acquired KeyWorth Bank and in 2018 Renasant acquired Brand Bank.
Today, Renasant Bank has 30 branches in North Georgia and more than $3 Billion in assets. Renasant operates more than 200 locations in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida and has approximately $13.9 Billion in assets. Their vision is to be the financial services advisor and provider of choice in each community they serve.
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Questions/Topics Discussed in this Show
- Overview of Renasant Bank and its Georgia operations
- Ken’s role as President of North Georgia
- PPP loan program and Renasant’s community banking philosophy in that program
- Across the company, Renasant funded 10,5000 PPP loan apps totaling $1.3 billion (as of June 22)
- This amount represents roughly 10% of the assets of the entire company.
- PPP loan forgiveness
- The community banking approach taken by this large regional bank
- Ken’s advice for business owners now
North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.
Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 200 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.
