PNC Bank announced Brian Bucher will retire as Regional President for North Florida effective Oct.7 following a distinguished 40-year career in financial services. Succeeding him will be PNC Senior Vice President of Corporate Banking and former BBVA USA executive Chris Kalin.
Since joining PNC in 1982, Bucher has played a key role in expanding the bank’s Main Street model across multiple regions, having served as regional president in Northwest Ohio, Northern Alabama and North Florida. In these roles, Bucher helped fuel growth of PNC’s market presence through effective leadership of its banking, charitable and community engagement activities. In his most recent role as regional president of North Florida, he led PNC’s local focus on developing and deepening relationships with new and existing mortgage, corporate, commercial and institutional banking clients throughout the region, a role that gained even more prominence and importance with the 2021 acquisition of BBVA USA.
“We are grateful for Brian’s exceptional leadership, dedication and tremendous accomplishments at PNC spanning four decades,” said Jim Hansen, PNC Office of the Regional Presidents Southeast territory executive. “PNC appreciates Brian’s success across our expansion markets, and the positive impact he has made in North Florida over the past five years, particularly during the BBVA USA acquisition, which changed the landscape in the market for PNC. While we will miss him, we know this next chapter will be sweet and wish him nothing but the best.”
Bucher’s successor, Kalin, is a Jacksonville, FL, native with more than 16 years experience in the financial services industry. He brings a diverse set of skills and perspectives to the PNC Regional Presidents organization and to clients and employees in the North Florida region. His extensive banking experience includes a variety of middle market and corporate banking roles, with responsibilities that included credit analysis, commercial strategy, portfolio management, relationship management and market expansion. Kalin has been with PNC and legacy organization BBVA USA for more than five years and has helped lead the corporate banking efforts in North Florida. He received a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of North Florida and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
“With a demonstrated track record of local business success, leadership and community engagement, Chris is eminently qualified to succeed Brian,” Hansen said. “Chris is a dynamic and energetic leader who will infuse North Florida with excitement and financial experience that emanates from being an integral part of local legacy companies and maintaining a deep knowledge of the community and its needs.”