Sharon Bryant

Sharon Bryant currently serves as the South Carolina Regional Executive Vice President for First Citizens Bank. She served as Executive Vice President and  Division Executive from 2001-2010. In 2010, she  assumed the dual roles of Regional Executive Vice President for Central South Carolina and Director of  the Bank’s Wealth Advisory Group, while continuing  to serve as President of First Citizens Securities. In 2012, she was named South Carolina Banking Executive prior to being named South Carolina Regional Executive Vice President in 2014. As South Carolina Regional Executive Vice President, Bryant is responsible for retail, business and commercial banking in South Carolina, Northeast Georgia, Augusta and Savannah. From 2010 to 2013, Bryant served as director of the bank’s Wealth Advisory Group, a division with more than $2.7 billion in assets under management.

Bryant has more than 35 years of banking, fiduciary and investment services experience.  She is licensed securities representative and 
principal, a 2004 recipient of the Women of Distinction award given by the Girl Scouts of America, a 1997 recipient of the YWCA’s Tribute to Women in Industry award, a 1997 winner of the Athena award by the Chamber of Commerce, a 1995 graduate of Leadership 
Columbia, a founding member of Women in Philanthropy, and a Junior League sustainer, a 2017 recipient of First Citizens Chairman’s Circle Award; a 2019 Junior League of the Midlands Lifetime Achievement Award; a 2021 recipient of the Order of the Palmetto.