The firm has also hired Angela Ross – previously chief branding officer at the commercial bank StellarOne - as chief marketing officer, based in Richmond.

George Meyls, who joins as senior vice president and head of private banking, was most recently a private banking director at StellarOne Bank and has over 20 years of wealth management and private banking experience, including roles at Paine Webber, Smith Barney and Wells Fargo Bank.

Russell Carter – latterly a trust advisor at Union First Market Bank in Richmond – is now a trust advisor in Richmond at Park Sterling. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the trust area, having held roles at JP Morgan Chase, SunTrust Bank and StellarOne. 

Alan Smith has also been named as a trust advisor, based in Charlotte, NC. Smith has seven years of banking experience, most recently with PNC Bank, where he was a relationship manager in wealth management, and with Bank of America as a client manager.

Park Sterling is a regional financial services company with around $2 billion in assets.