PNC Bank said July 20 that Brian Bucher will retire as regional president for North Florida on Oct. 7.
He will be succeeded by Chris Kalin, a Jacksonville native and former executive of BBVA USA.
Kalin has been with PNC and predecessor BBVA for more than five years. He currently is PNC senior vice president of corporate banking.
Bucher, who joined Pittsburgh-based PNC in 1982, became regional president when the company opened a regional headquarters office in Jacksonville in 2017.
PNC at the time did not have any bank branches in the Jacksonville market but it acquired BBVA USA in 2021, which had 23 Northeast Florida branches.
“PNC appreciates Brian’s success across our expansion markets, and the positive impact he has made in North Florida over the past five years, particularly during the BBVA USA acquisition, which changed the landscape in the market for PNC,” Jim Hansen, territory executive for the bank’s Southeast region, said in a news release.