Investor Relations

Board of Directors

  • Jay Turner
    Chairman of the Board of Directors
    Mr. Turner serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and was a former Chair of the Credit Committee and a former member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Turner has served on our Board since 2008. He joined MarketStreet Enterprises in 1999 and has served as the Managing Director since 2007. Mr. Turner was a member of the board of directors of the Farmers National Bank Financial Corporation in Scottsville, Kentucky, for more than 15 years. He also serves on the boards of Nashville Downtown Partnership and The Country Music Hall of Fame. He received his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School.
  • Earl Bentz
    Mr. Bentz is one of the founders of CapStar Bank and currently serves as Chair of the Risk Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Bentz has served on our Board since 2008. Since 2018, he has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Caymas Boats, a company he founded in 2018 located in Ashland City, Tennessee. Mr. Bentz serves on the board of directors of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and has formerly served on the boards of the Middle Tennessee Council, Boy Scouts of America, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Foundation, the National Association of Boat Manufacturers, the National Marine Manufacturers’ Association, the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation and the Congressional Sportsman’s Foundation. Mr. Bentz attended Clemson University and participated in continuing education programs in business finance at Vanderbilt University; he has also completed the Dale Carnegie Human Relations courses and training.
  • Pete DeLay
    Mr. DeLay serves as a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Joining the Board in 2023, Mr. DeLay is Chief Executive Officer and Principal of Lynwood Ventures, LLC., a Nashville based investment management company. Mr. DeLay is the former president and CEO of Nashville-based Sherman-Dixie Concrete Industries, served as lead consultant at Forterra’s Nashville division of Forterra Pipe & Precast, and served as President and CEO of Micelle BioPharma. His previous service includes Board of Trustees of Sewanee-University of the South, the Board of Directors for the American Concrete Pipe Association, and Nashville Board of Advisors for AmSouth Bank and Regions Financial Corp, former Director and Trustee of Martha O’Bryan Foundation and Center. He currently serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for Cheekwood Estate and Botanical Gardens, Board of Director for Nashville Business Coalition, Board of Trustees of Middle Tennessee State University, the Boy Scouts of America, and Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Montgomery Bell Academy where he was recently appointed Co-Chairman of the MBA Capital Campaign. He holds a BA degree in Economics from Sewanee-University of the South.
  • Sam DeVane
    Mr. DeVane serves as the Chair of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee. With more than three decades of public accounting experience serving clients throughout the southeast, Mr. DeVane retired as a Partner of Ernst & Young LLP in 2020. During his career he served as EY’s Nashville Office Managing Partner, as EY’s Tennessee Markets Leader, and as a coordinating partner and lead audit partner. The majority of Mr. DeVane’s career involved service to clients in numerous industries including Dollar General Corporation, Tractor Supply Company, and Ryman Hospitality Corporation. He brings to the Board extensive technical accounting, corporate governance, major transactions, strategy, process automation, financial reporting, and risk management experience. A licensed CPA in Tennessee, Mr. DeVane is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alabama. Mr. DeVane has served on several distinguished professional boards, including United Way of Middle Tennessee (Chair of 6 the Nashville Campaign), Junior Achievement (Centennial Leadership Award recipient), Harding Academy (Treasurer), and the University of Alabama President’s Cabinet and Accounting Advisory Board.
  • Tom Flynn
    Mr. Flynn serves as a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation and Human Resources Committee. Mr. Flynn has served on our Board since 2008. Mr. Flynn is a director of Flynn Enterprises, LLC, a family owned, multi-national garment manufacturing, sales and distribution company headquartered in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and serves on the board of Planters Bank, Hopkinsville, for which he is also a member of the audit committee. Mr. Flynn attended Vanderbilt University as a National Merit Scholar, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English, and subsequently received a law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School.
  • Harrison Frist
    Mr. Frist serves as a member of the Risk Committee and the Compensation and Human Resources Committee. Joining the Board in 2023, Mr. Frist is Chief Executive Officer at naviHealth where he is responsible for the strategic vision and leadership of the organization. Mr. Frist has been with naviHealth since its founding in 2012 and most recently served as naviHealth’s Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining naviHealth, Mr. Frist worked as an investment professional focused on the financial services industry for The Carlyle Group and as an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group at Goldman Sachs. He is active in the community and serves on the board of the Martha O’Bryan Center, which empowers children, youth, and adults in poverty to transform their lives, and The Hermitage, the historic home of President Andrew Jackson. He holds an AB degree in History from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
  • L.A. Green
    Mr. Green serves on the Risk Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and chairs our Advisory Board for Sumner County, which provides guidance to our management regarding that portion of our market. Mr. Green has served on our Board since 2012. He was an incorporator of American Security, which merged with CapStar in July, 2012. Mr. Green is General Partner of Green & Little, a real estate investment company, and President of Green-Little Corporation, a real estate management company. He holds partnership interests in several companies investing in industrial, commercial and retail real estate. Mr. Green has served as director of Commerce Union Bank of Sumner County and as an advisory director of NationsBank. He attended the University of Tennessee.
  • Valora Gurganious
    Ms. Gurganious serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Risk Committee. Ms. Gurganious serves as Partner and Senior Management Consultant for Knoxville-based DoctorsManagement, LLC, assisting clients in all medical specialties and providing services related to operational efficiency, workflow optimization, compliance, IT, accounting, marketing, and strategic planning. She also advises physicians and hospitals across the country on practice valuation, startup, contract negotiation and transition of ownership. Prior to joining DoctorsManagement, Ms. Gurganious served as Chief Operating Officer for Central Florida Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center in Melbourne, and as Director and Vice Chair — Finance for Wuesthoff Foundation, a $10 million Florida health system foundation. She also held the position of senior vice president with Fleet Investment Advisors and Putnam Investments in Boston for seven years and is a licensed Business Broker in the state of Florida. Ms. Gurganious earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and business administration from Vanderbilt University and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Healthcare Business Consultant and a member of the National Society of Certified Healthcare Business Consultants (NSCHBC) as well as Executive Women International (EWI). A dynamic and accomplished speaker, Ms. Gurganious uses her expertise to deliver strategic healthcare and financial lectures at medical conferences across the country.
  • Nan Jenne
    Ms. Jenne serves as Chair of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee and serves as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Jenne has served on our Board since her appointment in 2018. Ms. Jenne began practicing law with Carter, Harrod & Cunningham in Athens, Tennessee, and later practiced in Knoxville with Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan. She currently practices at The Jenne Law Firm in Cleveland, Tennessee, where she served as the firm’s office manager. Ms. Jenne is also working for Patriot Family Homes, a provider of short term rentals with over three hundred homes in twelve states as a Compliance Officer. Ms. Jenne has 7 served on the board of directors of Athens Federal Community Bank and on the Nalls Sherbakoff Group financial advisory board in Knoxville. She has been involved in various civic and charitable organizations in Cleveland over the past twenty years including serving on the boards at the Museum Center at Five Points and the Cleveland Athens Cotillion. She has also served on the Board of Trustees at Broad Street United Methodist Church and serves on several committees at The Baylor School in Chattanooga. She graduated with Honors with a B.S. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she served as captain of the Tennessee Dance Team. She went on to attend Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law and graduated with a J.D. in 1994.
  • Joelle Phillips
    Ms. Phillips serves on the Audit Committee and the Compensation and Human Resources Committee. Ms. Phillips has served on our Board since 2020. Ms. Phillips began practicing law as law clerk for Hon. Rhesa H. Barksdale of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and later practiced in Atlanta, Georgia with Long, Aldridge & Norman LLP and in Nashville with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP. After serving as General Attorney for both BellSouth and AT&T Tennessee, she now serves as the President of AT&T Tennessee, a position she has held since 2013. Ms. Phillips is involved in several civic and charitable organizations in Nashville, Tennessee, including serving as the Chair for the Drive to 55 Coalition and serving on the boards of Birmingham-Southern College, Tennessee Business Leadership Coalition and Nashville Repertory Theatre. Furthermore, Ms. Phillips was recognized as the Nashville Business Journal Newsmaker of the Year for 2015, Nashville’s Power 100 list, Nashville’s Women Business Leaders of the Year 2014, Tennessee Board of Regents’ Award for Philanthropy and was named one of Nashville’s Outstanding CEOs for 2017. Ms. Phillips graduated magna cum laude with a B.F.A. from Birmingham-Southern College in 1989 and went on to attend Washington & Lee University School of Law where she graduated summa cum laude with a J.D. in 1995.
  • Tim Schools
    President and Chief Executive Officer, CapStar Bank and CapStar Financial Holdings, Inc.
    Mr. Schools has served as a Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer of CapStar Financial Holdings, Inc. and Capstar Bank since 2019. Previously, he served as President of American Savings Bank, Chief Financial Officer of The South Financial Group, Director of Alabama Power Company Employees Credit Union, Director of First Market Bank, as well as an Issuer Affairs Advisory Board Member of Nasdaq and OTC. Mr. Schools serves on the boards of the Nashville Downtown Partnership, Nashville Sports Council, and Tennessee Business Roundtable. He received an M.B.A. from Emory Business School and a B.B.A., magna cum laude, in Information and Decision Science from James Madison University.
  • Steve Smith
    Mr. Smith serves as Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and serves on the Risk Committee. Mr. Smith has served on our Board since 2008. He is Chairman of Haury & Smith Contractors, Inc., a building and development company. He is active in the community, having served on the Metropolitan Nashville Planning Commission and the Regional Transit Authority and as Chairman of the Metropolitan Nashville Parks and Recreation board of directors. Mr. Smith served as National Finance Co-Chair for Senator Lamar Alexander’s presidential campaigns in 1996 and 2000, and he achieved Super Ranger status in President George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign. He was National Finance Chairman for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s leadership political action committee, VOLPAC, and serves as Finance Chairman for Senator Bill Haggerty. In addition, he has served on the boards of the FHLB of Cincinnati and Franklin Road Academy, and as director of the First Union National Bank community board. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University, where he serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
  • Toby Wilt
    Mr. Wilt is one of the founders of CapStar Bank and serves as a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He has served on our Board since 2008. Mr. Wilt has nearly four decades of experience in the banking industry. Mr. Wilt is a retired, non-practicing certified public accountant, who is no longer affiliated with the Tennessee Association of Accountants or the AICPA. He practiced accountancy with Ernst & Ernst in the 1970s. He has previously served on the boards of directors of banks and public companies including C&S/Sovran Corporation, Commerce Union Bank, Outback Steakhouse and Genesco Inc. Mr. Wilt currently serves as President of TSW Investment Company, Founding President of Golf Club of Tennessee. Mr. Wilt is also a former board member of First American National Bank and served as Chairman of the Board for the Christie Cookie Company. He earned a B.E. in civil engineering from Vanderbilt University and is a former pilot in the United States Air Force.
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