Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 11

133 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 11 philosophy, and it doesn’t really change.” BVM: What gets you excited about running a community bank? Dixon: “In a word: involvement. I am the incoming chair of our local Chamber of Commerce. We are trying to help build our community in a very strategic manner. In Tallahassee, right now, all these students come in to go to university or college, and then when they graduate, they leave. Why can’t we do things and promote this community to grow jobs ... to grow industry? “The new President at Florida State University (FSU) wants to change it into more of a research institution, which is phenomenal. We’ve got the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) here – the largest and highest- powered magnet lab in the world – for research on magnetic propulsion, MRI machines, etc. It PR IME MER IDI AN BANK