Regions Bank on Thursday announced the promotion of veteran local bankers Jason Allen and Jermon Garner to head Regions’ banking operations in Southeast Tennessee.
Allen, who will serve as the market executive for the Chattanooga area, and Garner, who was named market executive in Cleveland, Tennessee, fill the vacancy created when former Regions Market President Michael Mathis left Regions Bank in May to return to Pinnacle Bank. Mathis had been Regions’ market president for the past 15 years and is now Chattanooga president of Pinnacle Bank.
Both Allen and Garner were raised, educated and have built their careers in the Tennessee Valley.
Contributed photo / Jason Allen is the new market executive in Chattanooga for Regions Bank. December 15, 2022Allen grew up in Cleveland and holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He joined Regions in 2007 as a leadership development associate, starting as a teller at a Chattanooga branch. After serving in various consumer banking, credit underwriting, and government and institutional banking roles, Allen now leads the commercial banking team for Southeast Tennessee.
Garner is from Chattanooga. He earned a degree in communications from Lee University in Cleveland and joined Regions in 2013 as a branch banker. He rose to the rank of branch manager before assuming his current commercial banking role earlier this year.