Promotions, hirings, achievers and company news

Here’s a look at promotions, hirings, movers and newsmakers in the Memphis area business scene:

Pinnacle Financial Partners has grown its Memphis team with the addition of office leader Justin Russell, who is based at the firm’s main Memphis office at 949 S. Shady Grove. On Russell’s client service team at the Shady Grove office are financial advisor Keith Collins, financial advisor assistant James Hannan and financial specialist Tara Stewart. Russell was most recently branch operations manager at Orion Federal Credit Union. Collins, with 31 years of financial services experience, previously was commercial relationship manager at SunTrust (now Truist). Hannan came to his role as financial advisor assistant at Pinnacle from Independent Bank in Memphis, where he was a retail banker. Stewart has 21 years of financial services experience, most recently as a teller for Orion Federal Credit Union.