SunTrust-BB&T successor names regional leader

Truist Financial, the superregional bank created from the merger of BB&T and SunTrust, has picked its longtime Memphis market president to lead it in Middle and West Tennessee.

Executives from BB&T and SunTrust completed the combination of the two regional powers last Friday and say they expect to spend the next two years integrating their various pieces and systems. Leading that effort in the Nashville area — with middle-market chief Scott Pohlman reporting to him and BB&T area leader Cameron Wells as Greater Nashville market president — will be Johnny Moore, who also will oversee Truist's work with small and mid-sized companies in the region. (The Truist organization has defined Moore’s community banking purview as working with companies that have between $5 million and $75 million in revenues; Pohlman’s group works with business of $75 million to $500 million in sales.)