Lisa Ferrelli is a Senior Vice President with the Mid South Global Commercial Banking team at Bank of America. In this role, she is responsible for client relationships and business development in the middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky area focused on private and public companies with revenues of $50 million to $2 billion. Prior to joining Global Commercial Banking in May 2015, she served as the national Sales Performance Manager for the Enterprise Business and Community Engagement team at Bank of America, supporting the development and execution of strategies to support business integration across the company.
Ferrelli has over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry, including fifteen years in commercial real estate banking followed by various sales performance roles focused on business integration with commercial banking, institutional investments and wealth management.
She joined Bank of America in 1985, via the Fleet Funding subsidiary of Fleet Bank, and in 1993 transitioned to NationsBank. Ferrelli earned a bachelor of business administration in Management from the University of Mississippi in 1983 and holds Series 7, 66 and 79 registrations.
She currently serves on the board for the YWCA and is part of the Executive Leadership team, as well as a board member for Nashville Rotary, where she will serve as President for the 2022-2023 term. She is Vice Chair of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce International Advisory Board and serves on the Advisory Board for MP&F and Belmont University Master’s program for Mental Health and Pastoral Care. Most recently she joined the Nashville State Community College Foundation Board of Trustees. In 2021 she was recognized by the Nashville Public Education Foundation as a MNPS Distinguished Alumni and will co-chair the event in 2022. She has been named one of the Nashville Business Journal’s Women of Influence, Power 100 Dealmakers and Power Leaders in Finance. She is an alumni of Leadership Nashville Class of 2017 and served on the Leadership team in 2018. She is an active supporter of Go Red for Women, Habitat for Humanity and Bank of America’s volunteer network and actively participates in several Bank of America Diversity & Inclusion networks, including LEAD for Women and Power of 10. She is a native of Nashville, where she resides with her husband Kenny. They have two adult children, Will and Carrie and daughter-in-law, Kathleen.