Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> April 1, 2003
KEVIN C. HALE has served as Executive Vice President and Chief
Operating Officer of F.N.B. Corporation since 2001. In this
position, he is responsible for all corporate operations,
including banking, insurance, trust and consumer finance. Mr.
Hale has more than two decades of banking experience, primarily
in Florida. He joined F.N.B. Corporation in 2000, serving as
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the
company's rapidly expanding Florida division. Prior to joining
F.N.B., he served in several key executive positions with
SunTrust Banks Inc., including five years as President and Chief
Operating Officer of the bank's Southwest Florida region. He also
served as Senior Executive Vice President of SunTrust Bank,
Southwest Florida, with management responsibility for trust,
investment services, private and executive banking, insurance
sales, and retail brokerage services in a three-county area. From
1986 to 1994, Mr. Hale was the President and Chief Executive
Officer of SunBank, Naples. Mr. Hale's senior management
experience also includes four years as President and Chief
Executive Officer of Citizens & Southern National Bank of Brevard
County and three years as President and Chief Executive Officer
of First Bank of Marco Island. Mr. Hale is a graduate of the
University of Florida School of Banking, The Stonier Graduate
School of Banking at Rutgers University, and the Dalhousie
University Law School in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has
served in leadership roles with numerous area civic and
charitable organizations, including the American Heart
Association, the Economic Development Council of Collier County,
the Community Foundation of Collier County, Youth Haven Inc.,
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida, and the Philharmonic
Center for the Arts Inc. Mr. Hale also is a graduate of the
Leadership Florida Class of 2002. Profile
Corporation and an overview of things as they are today?
Mr. Hale: F.N.B. Corporation traces its roots back to 1864 in
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