Ashanti Mitchell

About Ashanti Mitchell

I spent over 20 years in commercial banking—reviewing financial statements, underwriting cash flow, and making real lending decisions for business owners.What most people never see from the outside is this: banks don’t just lend to businesses. They lend to capacity.Cash flow capacity. Risk capacity. Decision-making capacity. And often, operator capacity.I watched smart, capable founders struggle to access capital—not because their businesses were broken, but because they were exhausted. Stress showed up in forecasting. Fatigue showed up in missed details. Burnout quietly turned good companies into higher-risk borrowers.At the same time, I was living it myself.Like a lot of founders and operators, I treated my body like something to push through. Over time, that approach caught up with me—less energy, less clarity, and lower tolerance for stress. And I started to see something I couldn’t unsee: the same rules apply to bodies and businesses.Strength matters.Flow matters.Leverage without capacity breaks things.I want to help business owners understand how banks actually think—while building the physical capacity to lead, decide, and perform under pressure.Because durable businesses aren’t built by burned-out operators. They’re built by founders who can carry the load.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President Commercial Banking

   Regions Bank

   Oct 2022 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   Serve as the primary relationship manager for a portfolio of founder-led and founder-managed companies in the DFW market, with revenues of up to $500M. Act as a trusted advisor to business owners and executive teams, aligning credit, treasury, and risk solutions to support growth, liquidity, and long-term value creation.Lead all aspects of relationship management, including credit structuring, portfolio oversight, and risk management.Coordinate and leverage the bank’s full suite of product partners—treasury management, capital markets, specialty lending, and other solutions—to deepen the relationship across the enterprise.Partner, cross-functionally, to deliver integrated, scalable banking solutions across all stages of a client’s lifecycle.

Education

• University of Central Oklahoma

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance

  1999 — 2003

• Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business

  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  2010 — 2012