Bill Willson Email & Phone Number

Monroe, La

Senior Vice President: Over Public Finance Sales for the States of Louisiana and Mississippi. Specialize in Underwriting Bond Issues and Bank Placements for Municipalities, Educational Systems, the Health Care Industry as well as Corporate Financings involving both Public and Private Business.

Executive Vice President over the Corporate Lending Group of the ARK-LA-TEX Group.In 10 years, I grew my Commercial Loan Portfolio to over $500MM in credit exposure, including both Loans and Letters of Credits, from an original amount of $35MM. I also had a deposit portfolio of over $50MM. I was recognized as the Top Production Commercial/Corporate Loan Officer in 2006 in all of Regions Bank's 16 State footprint. I was awarded both the Bank's "Pinnacle" Award and "Bravo" awards. and was a graduate of Regions Bank's prestigeous Leadership University.

Vice President Commercial Lending; grew and managed $30MM+ loan portfolio.Vice President over Trust Marketing; responsible for Employee Benefits, Personal Trust and Investment Management Sales.AVP/Manager of the Private Banking Department; Responsible for the "start-up" of the Bank's Private Banking Department in N/E LA.

Orginally, I was a Management Trainee and later became a Private Banking Lender.I spent 6 months in Commercial Credit as an analyst and 6 months in Loan Review, also as an analyst.I was a Private Banking Relationship Officer/Lender for over 2 years before I moved to Monroe, LA. with Premier Bank