SunTrust Giving Hoepner Reins Of Fla. Banks In September

T.J. Hoepner will become chairman, president, and chief executive of SunBanks Inc., the Florida subsidiary of Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks Inc., on Sept. 1.

Mr. Hoepner, who currently holds the same titles at SunBank in Orlando, will succeed Wendell H. Colson, who reaches the normal retirement age of 65 on Aug. 31.

Mr. Colson, who joined SunBank in 1952 as its first management trainee, has been president since 1989 and its chairman since 1993. He is the immediate past president of the Florida Bankers Association.

Mr. Hoepner has been in banking for 32 years and with SunBank since 1968. He has been chairman and CEO of SunBanks in Jacksonville, Miami, and Orlando. He has led the largest of SunBanks' 14 Florida subsidiaries for more than five years. With more than $5.2 billion in assets and 57 offices, it is the market share leader in Central Florida.

George W. Koehn, formerly president of the Orlando unit, will return there to assume all three of Mr. Hoepner's titles. He is currently chairman, president, and CEO of SunBank Tampa Bay.

Replacing Mr. Koehn as chairman and CEO at the Tampa Bay unit will be Carl F. Mentzer, president of SunBank Miami.

Thomas G. Kuntz, senior executive vice president of the Tampa Bay bank is being promoted to president.

Robert H. Coord, chairman and CEO of SunBank Miami, will assume the additional post of president.

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