Management

John Turner is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Regions Financial Corporation, one of the nation’s largest regional banks with $159 billion in assets. Regions is a member of the S&P 500 Index and is one of the nation’s largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, wealth management, and mortgage products and services. The company operates in 15 states across the Southeast, Midwest and Texas.

Turner joined Regions in 2011 as president of the South Region, leading banking operations in Alabama, Mississippi, South Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle, and named head of the Corporate Bank in 2014. He became President in 2017, and in 2018, was named chief executive officer and appointed to the Regions’ board of directors. In April 2024, Turner became Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to joining Regions, Turner was named president of Whitney National Bank and Whitney Holding Corporation in 2008 and was elected to the bank and holding company boards of directors. Earlier in his career at Whitney, he was responsible for all geographic line banking functions across the bank and served as the company’s Eastern Region President. Turner joined Whitney in 1994 as its Alabama regional president after nine years at AmSouth Bank, where he held senior consumer, commercial and business positions.

Turner holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Georgia and is currently a trustee for the University of Georgia Foundation. Turner previously served as Chairman of the Board of the Business Council of Alabama and the United Way of Central Alabama.  He was appointed by the Governor to serve on the Alabama Growth Alliance.  Additionally, Turner currently serves on the boards of the Southern Company, Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, Prosper Birmingham, United Way of Central Alabama, Business Council of Alabama, A Plus Education Foundation, and Infirmary Health System boards.  He previously served on the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama and is a former chairman of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, the Mobile Area Education Foundation and the United Way of Southwest Alabama. He is a graduate of Leadership Alabama and a former board member of Leadership Mobile.

David Turner serves as Regions’ chief financial officer and is a member of the Regions Executive Leadership Team. Turner leads all finance operations, including financial systems, investor relations, corporate treasury, corporate tax, management planning and reporting, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions.

Turner joined Regions in 2005 and led the Internal Audit Division for Regions before being named chief financial officer in 2010. His responsibilities included overseeing various audits of the overall corporation reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Regions, Turner served as an audit partner of KPMG LLP and he previously served Arthur Andersen in a number of positions, including: audit partner, audit manager, senior auditor and staff auditor. His primary focus was financial institutions.

Turner earned a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and attended Tulane University in Louisiana.

Turner has served on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee for Junior Achievement of Alabama, Inc., United Way of Central Alabama, Inc., and is a member of the President’s Cabinet of the University of Alabama, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Alabama Society of CPA’s and the American Institute of CPA’s. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham, and a member of Leadership Alabama Class XXX.

Kate Danella serves as head of Regions Consumer Banking Group, which is comprised of the Retail Bank, Mortgage, and Indirect Lending and Partnerships. These business lines include Branch Bankers and Retail Leadership; Mortgage Sales; Consumer Products & Origination; Consumer Risk Services, Compliance, CRA/Fair Lending; Consumer Bank Support and Performance Solutions; Consumer Transformation & Strategic Initiatives; Consumer Strategy and Client Experience; and Consumer Home Improvement Lending - EnerBank. Danella is a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team. Regions is a regional bank that operates throughout the South, Midwest and Texas and is headquartered in Birmingham, Ala.

Previously Danella was head of Strategy and Client Experience, Strategic Planning and Consumer Bank Products and Origination Partnerships. Prior to that, Danella led Private Wealth Management. She joined Regions in July 2015 as the Wealth Strategy and Effectiveness Executive. Before joining Regions, Danella served for 13 years as vice president for Capital Group Companies, a global wealth management organization managing more than $1.7 trillion in assets, in various leadership roles in sales, strategy, client services and marketing.

Danella earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics and English from Vanderbilt. She also holds a master’s of philosophy in European Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School. She serves on the board for the Consumer Bankers Association, Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, and the Board of Overseers for the Culverhouse School of Business. She is also a member of the Rotary Club of Greater Birmingham.

Dave Keenan is Chief Administrative and Human Resources Officer and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Keenan leads all Human Resources functions, as well as Corporate Security, the Aviation Group, and Corporate Real Estate & Procurement. Regions is a regional bank that operates throughout the South, Midwest and Texas and is headquartered in Birmingham, Ala.

Prior to being named Chief Administrative and Human Resources Officer in 2020, Keenan served as Chief Human Resources Officer for the company for 10 years. In this capacity, he was a key member of the leadership team which led the bank through the 2008 financial crisis, subsequently creating an industry-leading organizational culture as recognized by Gallup’s Exceptional Workplace Award six years in a row.

Keenan joined Regions’ predecessor Amsouth Bank in 2003 as leader of the company’s Field Human Resources Group. In 2006, he led the HR integration during the Regions/AmSouth merger. Before joining AmSouth, Keenan served as director of Human Resources at Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, where he worked for 10 years. Prior to Frito-Lay, Keenan served in the U.S. Army as a Captain for four years.

Keenan earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Furman University. He earned a master’s degree in Human Resources from Boston University.

Dan Massey serves as Regions Chief Enterprise Operations and Technology Officer and is a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team. Massey is responsible for all aspects of Regions Enterprise Operations, Technology, Digital, and Data and Analytics. Regions is a regional bank that operates throughout the South, Midwest and Texas and is headquartered in Birmingham, Ala.

Before joining Regions in 2022, Massey spent almost 30 years at Truist Bank and its predecessor companies, including SunTrust Bank, primarily in roles focused on technology, operations, and transformation. In his previous roles at Truist, he served as head of Digital and Contact Center Banking and head of Enterprise Technology Strategic Services. Prior to the BB&T/SunTrust merger, Massey was Chief Technology Officer at SunTrust over technology strategy, architecture and enterprise API services, technology transformation, and more. His career also includes extensive experience in Mortgage operations, digital and technology transformation, and consumer lending. He began his career at Crestar Mortgage.

Massey holds a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a graduate of the Emory University Advanced Management Program

Throughout his career, Massey has been involved in a variety of not-for-profit boards, including serving as president of the Virginia Commonwealth University Alumni Association. He is also a member of the United Way’s Tocqueville Society.

Tara A. Plimpton serves as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Regions Financial Corporation and is a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team. She leads the company’s Legal, Government Affairs, and Corporate Governance departments.

Plimpton joined Regions in 2020, following an 18-year career at General Electric. At GE, Plimpton most recently served as Vice President and General Counsel for GE Global Operations. In that role, she led a team of over 450 global professionals running critical compliance, trade, IP, labor, and transactional support for GE globally. Plimpton also served as General Counsel to several GE divisions, including Transportation and Energy. Prior to joining GE, Plimpton was the managing partner of a law firm and provided legal counsel to a variety of corporate clients in the manufacturing, agricultural, and tourism industries.

Plimpton received a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Nevada and holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University.

Plimpton was a board member of United Way, Atlanta (2012-2018), CARE’s Women’s Advisory Network (2017-2020), and Georgetown’s Corporate Counsel Advisory Board (2018-2022). Plimpton was recognized earlier this year by the Birmingham Business Journal as a 2022 Leader in Diversity.

Bill Ritter serves as Head of the Wealth Management group. The Wealth Management group includes Private Wealth Management, Investment Services, Institutional Services and Asset Management.

Prior to assuming his current role in 2011, Ritter served as president for the Central Region, overseeing banking operations in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Throughout his career at Regions, which he started in 1993, Ritter has served in several management positions, including North Central Alabama area executive and commercial banking executive with management responsibility for commercial middle market, corporate banking and public, institutional and not for profit activity. He also has served as commercial banking sales manager and business banking sales manager for North Central Alabama.

Ritter earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Vanderbilt University and is a graduate of the Stonier School of Banking at Georgetown.

Ritter is involved in several community organizations, including serving on the board of directors of Leadership Birmingham and the Birmingham Museum of Art and on the board of trustees for Tuskegee University. He is a former member of the board of directors for the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama, McWane Science Center, the Alabama Symphony and Innovation Depot.

Brian Willman serves as the Head of the Corporate Banking Group for Regions, which includes Commercial Banking, Large Corporate Banking, Capital Markets, Real Estate Banking Regions Business Capital, the Credit Products Organization and Corporate Banking Group Administration. Willman is also a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team. Regions is a regional bank that operates throughout the South, Midwest, Texas and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Willman began his career at Regions in 2009 as the Community Banking Executive for the Georgia and South Carolina markets. He has held various leadership roles including, Head of Commercial Banking, Chief Operating Officer for Commercial Banking and Area President for South Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Prior to joining Regions, Willman served as Market President for the Northeast Georgia Region for Wachovia Bank.

Willman received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the Birmingham Business Alliance as well as on the board of UAB Visual and Performing Arts. Willman formerly served on the boards of St. Paul’s Episcopal School, Coastal Alabama Partnership and the Senior Bowl. He also is a former Past-Chair of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce and Treasurer of United Way of Southwest Alabama. In addition to his civic involvement, Willman is a graduate of Leadership Alabama

Russ Zusi is Chief Risk Officer and oversees Regions’ risk management functions, including Financial Risk, Non-Financial Risk, Enterprise Compliance Risk, Enterprise Risk, Risk Initiative Integration and Business Unit Risk Groups for the Corporate Banking Group, Consumer Banking Group, and Wealth Management. He is a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team. Regions is a regional bank that operates throughout the South, Midwest and Texas and is headquartered in Birmingham, Ala.

Prior to joining Regions in January 2024, Zusi spent 20 years at Bank of America, most recently as the co-head of Global Compliance and Operational Risk. In this role, he oversaw the company’s strategy and governance for the Compliance and Operational Risk program. Russ’ responsibilities also included maintaining relationships with key regulators and supervisory institutions worldwide, the bank’s senior leadership team, governance committees and the board of directors to support a culture that embraced risk management and a best-in-class control environment. Russ held numerous other leadership positions at Bank of America across Risk, including Credit, Liquidity, Capital and Interest Rate Risk, as well as Finance where he served as CFO of the Retail business.

Russ earned an engineering degree, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from Cornell University. He currently serves on the executive committee for LIFESPAN Services, a nonprofit serving children and adults with disabilities.