FirstBank father or mother stays in residence for upcoming CFO

The leaders of FB Money have picked out an 8-calendar year enterprise veteran to be successful James Gordon as CFO, who this spring remaining for a similar work in Texas.

Michael Mettee has been interim finance chief of FB Monetary, the father or mother firm of FirstBank, considering the fact that April. Prior to that, he was CFO of its banking operations and director of capital markets. The 40-year-previous joined FirstBank in 2012 just after controlling the finances and forecasting course of action for the retail banking procedure of BBVA Compass.

“Michael is an incredibly gifted chief who brings a powerful stage of lender and mortgage fiscal encounter to our government staff,” said FirstBank President and CEO Chris Holmes. “Our CFO look for committee went through a comprehensive process and interviewed top candidates nationally making use of an exterior search agency. We unanimously agreed that Michael not only brought outstanding experience and abilities but also was the ideal suit for us both of those culturally and strategically.”

Mettee, who acquired a finance diploma and an MBA diploma from the University of Alabama, has in the earlier served on advisory boards of Freddie Mac and the Federal House Financial loan Financial institution of Cincinnati.

His long lasting appointment will come soon right after FB Economical done its $478 million acquisition of Franklin Economic Network, which grew the company’s asset base to $11 billion. The company now operates 80 offices in Tennessee, South Central Kentucky, North Alabama and North Ga as properly as a nationwide home loan business throughout the Southeast.