Longtime banker makes move to advertising

JACKSON - Earlier this month, Chris Ray, chairman and CEO of The Ramey Agency, LLC, named Jack Garner, president and CEO of Union Planters Bank, N.A. - Jackson, as president of the advertising agency and vicechairman of the company's board of directors.

"There's no question that recruiting Jack

The career move marked Garner's return to the advertising/marketing field after a 29-year banking career. Before he began his banking career, Garner served as a principal at the Grenada-based advertising and marketing agency Evans, Garner, Townes Inc.

"With this move, my professional career will actually be coming full-circle," Garner said. "It was from a little ad agency, and with a real interest in marketing and advertising, that I came into banking in the first place."

In the last two years, The Ramey Agency has weathered significant changes. Its founder, president, and CEO, Thomas "Tommy" G. Ramey, died unexpectedly in the fall of 1999. Ramey established the firm in 1985. At the time of his death, it was the second-largest advertising agency in Mississippi.