John Turner Named President of Regions Bank and Regions Financial Corp.
December 13 2017 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) announced today that
John M. Turner Jr. has been named President of Regions Bank and
Regions Financial Corporation, its bank holding company. Turner,
56, is a Senior Executive Vice President, a member of the bank’s
Executive Council, and head of Regions’ Corporate Banking Group,
which serves small businesses as well as middle market and
corporate firms, and provides capital markets services and real
estate banking. He is also responsible for corporate strategic
planning and will remain head of the Corporate Banking Group. He
joined Regions in 2011.
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“John’s promotion is an example of Regions’ talent management
process, which ensures that the company develops its executives to
assume greater responsibility and provides continuity of
management,” Hall said.
Grayson Hall, 60, was named President of Regions in 2009 and
remains Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Hall became Chief
Executive Officer in 2010 and in 2013 was elected Chairman of the
Board of Directors.
Biographical information
John Turner joined Regions in 2011 as the regional president of
the South Region and led banking operations in Alabama,
Mississippi, South Louisiana, and the Florida Panhandle. He was
named head of Regions’ Corporate Bank in 2014.
Before joining Regions, Turner was named president of Whitney
National Bank and Whitney Holding Corporation in 2008 and was
elected to that bank and holding company boards of directors.
Previously he was responsible for all geographic line banking
functions across the bank, and was the company’s Eastern Region
President. Turner joined Whitney in 1994 as its Alabama regional
president after nine years at AmSouth Bank, where he held senior
consumer, commercial and business positions.
Turner holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the
University of Georgia. He serves on the Public Affairs Research
Council of Alabama, Business Council of Alabama, A Plus Education
Foundation, and Infirmary Health System boards. He is a former
chairman of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, former chairman of
the Mobile Area Education Foundation, a former chairman of the
United Way of Southwest Alabama, and a graduate of Leadership
Alabama. He is a former board member of Leadership Mobile.
About Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF), with $123 billion in
assets, is a member of the S&P 500 Index and is one of the
nation’s largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial
banking, wealth management, mortgage, and insurance products and
services. Regions serves customers across the South, Midwest and
Texas, and through its subsidiary, Regions Bank, operates
approximately 1,500 banking offices and 1,900 ATMs. Additional
information about Regions and its full line of products and
services can be found at www.regions.com.
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