Dennis Murphy, 37

Executive vice president, senior lending officer, Gateway Bank of Southwest Florida


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  • | 3:50 p.m. October 14, 2016
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In 2008, Dennis Murphy was presented with a rare opportunity in the banking sector: to help launch a bank, as a loan officer and founding shareholder, before he turned 30.

That was with Sarasota-based Gateway Bank of Southwest Florida. Murphy’s mentor, Shaun Merriman, wanted to woo Murphy away from AmSouth Bank, where they both had worked. “It was a real risk,” says Murphy, “to go from the certainty at AmSouth, where I had an established career path” to a new and unproven bank.

 

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