BancorpSouth Bank announced Whit Ross has been promoted in the BancorpSouth Equipment Finance and Leasing division, which provides equipment financing for commercial markets and municipalities across the Southeast and parts of the Midwest. Ross will serve as an Equipment Finance Specialist for customers in South Mississippi, the Florida Panhandle and the Alabama Coast.

Ross joined BancorpSouth in 2018 as a Vice President and Credit Manager. Prior to joining the company, he served as a Bank Examiner with the Mississippi Department of Banking and Consumer Finance.

“We are very excited to have Whit representing us in these important markets,” said BancorpSouth Equipment Finance and Leasing President Kyle Gilliam. “His knowledge and understanding of how equipment finance will benefit our commercial bank customers will play a key role in our go market strategy.”

Ross earned an associate’s degree in business administration from Copiah Lincoln Community College in Mendenhall and a bachelor’s degree in banking and finance from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He is a graduate of The Mississippi School of Banking and is enrolled in the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University.