Business View Magazine | October 2020

112 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 and be more profitable. I never give anybody a timeline on how big we’re going to be and when. So, we hurry up to wait; getting everything prepared we can think of and then wait for the right opportunity.” He adds, “For us, the definition of luck is nothing more than preparation plus opportunity. We want to be in communities in south Georgia, south Alabama, and just south of Lakeland, Florida. But it all comes back to having the right people. We’ll go where we can find the right folks that fit with us.” Prime Meridian Bank is an up-and-coming bank in a very regulated industry. Management values and pursues all available information to make its decisions. Dixon notes, “If we make a wrong decision, we raise our hands and quickly adjust. Our goal is to be directionally correct.” Internally, the Bank’s philosophy is “new information, new decision” and so Prime Meridian Bank is constantly tweaking anything that needs changing. Dixon believes, “No one has the perfect road map for building a bank, or any company, for that matter. There are a lot of ways to go. We’ve had an average compound growth rate of 22.2 percent since 2015 which is pretty remarkable for a bank. We are driven by purpose: banking done right, right away. For us these are not just words – they are how we get things done.” PREFERRED VENDOR n American Solutions for Business www.americanbus.com Prime Meridian Bank’s first CFO, Kathleen C. Jones