Mr. John A. Allison IV

John A. Allison is chairman and chief executive officer of BB&T Corporation, a $105 billion financial-holding company. Mr. Allison began his service with BB&T in 1971 and has managed a wide variety of responsibilities throughout the bank. He became president of BB&T in 1987 and was elected chairman and CEO in July 1989.

Allison is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a B.S. degree in business administration (1971). He received his master’s degree in management from Duke University (1974). He is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking and has received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Clemson University (2005), East Carolina University (1995), and Mount Olive College (2002).

He is a member of the American Bankers Association and The Financial Services Roundtable. He serves on the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Board of Visitors, the Board of Visitors at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. He also is a member of the boards of directors of The Financial Clearing House, Independent College Fund and the Global TransPark Foundation.

A native of Charlotte, N.C., Allison is married to the former Elizabeth McDonald of Elkin, N.C. They have two sons and one daughter — Eric, William, and Sarah.

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