Michele Elrod

EVP, Head of Corporate Marketing

Regions

Michele Elrod joined Regions in 1984 and provides strategic marketing direction and management as the Head of Corporate Marketing. Regions is a top U.S. bank-holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with $127 billion in assets, operating over 1,700 banking offices in 16 states.

Before serving in her current position, Michele held a number of management roles in strategic marketing and sales training for AmSouth and Regions Banks, and was the Marketing Director for The First National Bank of Tuskaloosa. Prior to entering the financial industry, Michele served in management roles directing public and media relations, fundraising, education and volunteer services in the Mental Health Services industry.

Michele has a master’s degree from the University of Alabama in Communication and Marketing and is a 2003 graduate of the AmSouth Leadership Program with the Georgia School of Business. She is also a graduate of MOMENTUM, the Birmingham Women’s Leadership Program. Michele has attended AmSouth College with the Georgia School of Business and completed the Chairman’s Stone Mountain Project. She has served in board positions on the Mental Health Association of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, The Tuscaloosa Spouse Abuse Network and the Tuscaloosa Ad Club. She was voted top Woman under 30 by the Tuscaloosa YWCA. Michele currently serves as a mentor in the University of Alabama College of Business Mentor Program. She is a member of Regions’ Leadership Group.