Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 12, 2001
RALPH HORN is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Tennessee
National Corporation and First Tennessee Bank National Association. Mr.
Horn joined First Tennessee Bank in Memphis in 1963 as a Management
Trainee. He was named Manager of the bank's Bond Division in 1976. Mr.
Horn was named President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of
First Tennessee National Corporation on July 30, 1991. At that time he
also was named Vice Chairman and a Director of First Tennessee Bank
National Association, FTNC's principal subsidiary. Mr. Horn was named
Chief Executive Officer of both companies on April 19, 1994, and on
January 1, 1996, he also became Chairman of the Board of Directors. He
has a Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State University, and
attended the Advanced Management Program, at Harvard University. Profile
of the company?
Mr. Horn: We are a regional banking company that has the dominant market
share in retail commercial
