Pinnacle Financial Partners (Nasdaq:PNFP), is a Nashville-based financial services firm founded in March 2000 by prominent Nashville business leaders, including five former First American Corporation executives. The founders saw Nashville as a high growth market with a demonstrated need for a different financial service experience for clients frustrated with traditional approaches to banking and financial services typically provided by large regional institutions. The initial public offering raised $19.1 million and was the largest de-novo capitalization of a national bank in Tennessee. At the end of the 2003 Pinnacle had grown assets to $498 million.