Burt Hicks
President, Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Encore Bank
Burt Hicks has made a tremendous impact on the Arkansas banking world in just over a decade of working in finance. A native of Pearcy, Arkansas, Hicks first worked on Wall Street as an investment banker for Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, before returning home to undertake management training with Simmons Bank and graduate law school from UALR and the Clinton School of Public Service. Hicks took invaluable experience he gained over several years with Simmons Bank with him when he made the leap to co-founding Encore Bank – joining with Chris Roberts and Philip Jett to buy out the shareholders of the Capital Bank, rebrand it, and raise an impressive $57 million in startup capital.
