BancorpSouth Equipment Finance and Leasing promoted Whit Ross to equipment finance specialist. He will serve customers in South Mississippi, the Florida Panhandle and the Alabama Coast.

Ross joined BancorpSouth in 2018 as a vice president and credit manager. Prior to joining the company, he served as a bank examiner with the Mississippi Department of Banking and Consumer Finance.

“We are very excited to have Whit representing us in these important markets,” said BancorpSouth Equipment Finance and Leasing President Kyle Gilliam. “His knowledge and understanding of how equipment finance will benefit our commercial bank customers will play a key role in our go market strategy.”

Ross is a graduate of The Mississippi School of Banking and is currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University.

Headquartered in Tupelo, MS, BancorpSouth Bank has approximately $20 billion in assets and operates more than 300 full-service branch locations as well as additional mortgage, insurance, and loan production offices in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, including an insurance location in Illinois. Its Equipment Finance and Leasing division provides equipment financing for commercial markets and municipalities across the Southeast and parts of the Midwest.