From fourteen employees in Thomasville to a regional banking business, W. Swope Montgomery Jr. spent twenty-two years leading Bank of North Carolina. His handover to a fellow founder is part of the story.

From a startup in Thomasville to BNC’s $1.9 billion merger with Pinnacle, Richard D. Callicutt II built a career close to home. A high jump record and a surprise for his mother reveal another side of the banker.