Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 8, 2003
JAMES A. TAYLOR SR. is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
of The Banc Corporation. The Banc Corporation began as Warrior Savings
Bank, now known as The Bank, which Mr. Taylor and a group of investors
acquired in October 1997. By December of 1998, The Banc Corporation,
parent company of The Bank, had completed four acquisitions, opened two
de novo branches and completed its initial public offering. Since that
time, The Banc Corporation has acquired two banks and one thrift in
Florida and another bank holding company in Huntsville, Alabama. Mr.
Taylor's banking career started in 1981, when he purchased a small
community bank with $17 million in assets in Ashland, Alabama. He
subsequently added five more banks and eventually formed Alabama
National BanCorporation (NASDAQ: ALAB), a multi-bank holding company
with assets of $325 million. He served as Chairman and CEO of Alabama
National BanCorporation and as Chairman of each of the subsidiary banks.
In 1994, he guided Alabama National through a public offering of the
company's stock, and in 1995, a merger with the parent company of
National Bank of Commerce in Birmingham, increasing Alabama National's
banking assets to approximately $1 billion. Mr. Taylor is a graduate of
Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama. He is a six-
time Southeastern Conference track and cross country champion, a former
division 1 head basketball and tennis coach, and a southeastern
conference radio and TV commentator. Profile
Mr. Taylor: Our company is five years old. It is a $1.4 billion company,
and it grew from zero to $1.4 billion in a five-year period. We have
