Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> October 3, 2003
ARCHIE H. DAVIS is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Savannah
Bancorp. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He also received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1966. He
went to work with The Citizens and Southern National Bank in 1966. From
1971 to 1980, Mr. Davis served as President of C&S in Savannah. From
1980 to 1987 he was in charge of the Corporate and International
Department for C&S in Atlanta. During 1988 and 1989, he served as
Assistant to the President of Johnson, Lane, Space, Smith & Co., Inc.
and after its merger with Interstate Securities served as Senior Vice
President of Interstate/Johnson Lane. While working on raising the money
for The Savannah Bank, N.A., he was recruited to return to Savannah and
serve as the Bank's President and Chief Executive Officer. Currently he
is the Vice Chairman of The Savannah Bank, N.A., and is the President
and Chief Executive Officer of The Savannah Bancorp, Inc. Mr. Davis is a
member of the Board of Directors of Savannah Electric Power Company,
Candler Foundation, Savannah Technical College and a Trustee of Historic
Savannah. He also serves as a Director of The Savannah Bancorp, Inc.,
and its two subsidiaries, The Savannah Bank and Bryan Bank & Trust. Profile
Mr. Davis: The concept goes back about 14 years, and at that point, a
lot of the independent banks of Savannah had been
