Hugh McColl

Hugh McColl
McColl in 2009
Born (1935-06-18) June 18, 1935 (age 89)
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BSBA)
Known forFormer Chairman, CEO Bank of America
SpouseJane Bratton Spratt McColl
Websitehttp://www.falfurriascapital.com

Hugh L. McColl Jr. (born 18 June 1935) is a fourth-generation banker[1] who was the CEO of NationsBank[2] and the former Chairman and the first CEO of Bank of America. Active in banking since around 1960, McColl was a driving force behind consolidating a series of progressively larger, mostly Southern banks, thrifts and financial institutions into a super-regional banking force, "the first ocean-to-ocean bank in the nation's history".[3]

Tony Plath, director of banking studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, described this transformation in 2005 as "the most significant banking story of the late 20th century."[4] In 2012, journalist Matt Taibbi described the transition as "a cartoonish arms race of bank acquisitions that would ultimately turn the American business world upside down".[5] As a young man, McColl along with a colleague [4] had envisioned creating the first truly national bank with branches from coast to coast.[4]

  1. ^ "Super Banker". Business Week, July 15, 1991. Archived from the original on November 29, 2004.
  2. ^ "Hugh L. McColl, Jr. - Leadership - Harvard Business School". www.hbs.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
  3. ^ Ross Yockey (1 December 1999). "Hugh McColl: Seasoned Banker". Allbusiness.com.
  4. ^ a b c Craig Whitlock and Irwin Speizer (17 December 2005). "1997: Hugh McColl, Tarheel of the Year". Charlotte News and Observer. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2009.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference rs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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