First National Bankers Bankshares, Inc. Announces Hiring of Charlie W. Brinkley, Jr. as Senior Vice President, Florida Region

BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- First National Bankers Bankshares, Inc. has announced the hiring of Charlie W. Brinkley, Jr. to the position of Senior Vice President, First National Bankers Bank. Mr. Brinkley will be responsible for Business Development in the state of Florida.

"We are excited to have Charlie Brinkley join our organization. His leadership and experience working with Florida bankers makes this a natural fit. Over the past several years Florida has become an important market for our banking services to community banks, as well as our Capital Markets Division," said Vic Nichol, President of FNBB's Alabama Region.

Mr. Brinkley is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Floridian Financial Group, Inc., the holding company for Floridian Bank in Daytona Beach, Florida and Orange Bank of Florida which is located in Orlando, Florida. Mr. Brinkley has served the banking community in an executive capacity that includes having been Chairman of Fifth Third Bank in Central Florida, and prior to the sale to Fifth Third Bank, was Chairman and CEO of Southern Community Bancorp in Orlando, Florida.

Mr. Brinkley holds a bachelors degree in Marketing from The University of Tennessee. Mr. Brinkley is currently a member of The University of Tennessee Development Council and of the Board of Directors of the Athletic Department. He is the 1998 past president of the Florida Banker's Association and was chosen Banker of the Year in 1999 by the Association.

First National Bankers Bankshares, Inc. is a holding company with three subsidiaries serving the correspondent banking needs of community financial institutions across the southeastern United States. First National Bankers Bank, chartered in 1983, is a $965 million dollar bank with offices in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Birmingham, Alabama, Little Rock Arkansas, Ridgeland, Mississippi, Shreveport, Louisiana and Marietta, Georgia and a total of 167 employees.

SOURCE First National Bankers Bankshares, Inc.