You may have known the name BB&T as a tower in Winston-Salem, a ballpark in Charlotte, or a bank on the corner in your neighborhood. It has been a couple of years since the former community bank merged with SunTrust bank, to become what is now known as Truist. The name now adorns the Charlotte Knights’ home stadium, as well as a central tower in uptown Charlotte. But in an era of bank consolidations, who is strong enough to lead a merger of two smaller regional banks into the nation’s 6th largest? Well, he’s sitting with us here today on the Give Us the Dirt Podcast.

Kelly King’s rise from a tobacco farm in Zebulon to the CEO of a major national bank, is not that different from the bank itself — one he joined in 1972. Nearly 50 years later, he stepped down from the CEO role on his birthday, just in time to join us in the HGC Studio. It’s an honor to welcome you here, Kelly King!