DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Three executives with Dallas-based Hilltop Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HTH)
have been recognized among the 500 most influential business leaders in
North Texas. Hilltop Holdings Chairman Gerald
J. Ford, Hilltop Holdings Co-CEO and Vice Chairman Alan
B. White, and HilltopSecurities Chairman and CEO Hill
A. Feinberg, were named to the 2018 Dallas
500.
A magnet for corporate headquarters and major company operations, the
North Texas region is home to some of the largest companies in the
country including ExxonMobil, AT&T, American Airlines, and
Kimberly-Clark. The executive talent that resides in North Texas reads
as a who’s who in business. Dallas 500 provides an engaging and
personal look at the people who have made Dallas-Fort Worth such a
powerful economic force.
Unprecedented in scope, Dallas 500 is a yearlong research
initiative by the editors of D CEO, named the country’s best
regional business magazine for the last five years by the national
Alliance for Area Business Publishers. In developing the list, the
editors identified the region’s most powerful top executives across 61
industries.
White was among 12 banking leaders recognized. A native of West Texas,
he founded PlainsCapital Corporation in 1987 and led the company’s
acquisitions of PlainsCapital Bank in 1988, PrimeLending in 1999, and
FirstSouthwest (now HilltopSecurities) in 2008. Following Hilltop
Holdings’ 2012 acquisition of PlainsCapital Corporation, White was named
co-CEO and vice chairman of Hilltop, a diversified financial services
holding company with $13.4 billion in assets.1Hilltop
Holdings provides banking and financial services through its four
primary subsidiaries: PlainsCapital Bank, PrimeLending,
HilltopSecurities, and National Lloyds Corporation.
Feinberg was one of six investment banking executives spotlighted.
Feinberg served as chairman and CEO of First Southwest Company for 25
years and played a pivotal role in the 2016 merger of FirstSouthwest
with HilltopSecurities. A former executive with Bear Stearns and Salomon
Brothers, respectively, Feinberg is a past chairman of the Municipal
Securities Rulemaking Board and currently serves on the Advisory Board
of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Center for
Municipal Finance and on the Client Advisory Council at BNY Mellon. He
is also a member of the University of Georgia Foundation’s Board of
Trustees.
Ford was named to Dallas 500’s Living Legends category which
includes some of the region’s most iconic political, business, and
philanthropic leaders, among them President George W. Bush, U.S.
Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison, Hunt Oil Executive Chairman Ray
Hunt, and Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones. Widely regarded as one of
the country’s most accomplished financial services executives, Ford has
been a recognized name in the industry for more than 40 years. A Texas
native, his expertise in buying and consolidating financial institutions
has led to his involvement in some of the country’s most notable bank
mergers and acquisitions, including First United Bank Group, Inc.; First
Gibraltar Bank, FSB; and California-based Golden State Bancorp. He is
the former chairman of First Acceptance Corporation, Pacific Capital
Bancorp, and Triad Financial Corporation and currently serves as
co-managing partner of Ford Financial Fund II, L.P., a private equity
fund.
About Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Hilltop Holdings is a Dallas-based financial holding company. Its
primary line of business is to provide business and consumer banking
services from offices located throughout Texas through PlainsCapital
Bank. PlainsCapital Bank’s wholly owned subsidiary, PrimeLending,
provides residential mortgage lending throughout the United States.
Hilltop Holdings’ broker-dealer subsidiaries, Hilltop Securities Inc.
and Hilltop Securities Independent Network Inc., provide a full
complement of securities brokerage, institutional and investment banking
services in addition to clearing services and retail financial advisory.
Through Hilltop Holdings’ other wholly owned subsidiary, National Lloyds
Corporation, it provides property and casualty insurance through two
insurance companies, National Lloyds Insurance Company and American
Summit Insurance Company. At December 31, 2017, Hilltop employed
approximately 5,500 people and operated approximately 475 locations in
44 states. Hilltop Holdings' common stock is listed on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbol "HTH." Find more information at Hilltop-Holdings.com,
PlainsCapital.com,
PrimeLending.com,
NationalLloydsInsurance.com
and HilltopSecurities.com.
1Hilltop Holdings assets as of December 31, 2017
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180406005103/en/
Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Ben Brooks, 214-252-4047
ben.brooks@hilltop-holdings.com
Source: Hilltop Holdings Inc.