Position: Area Executive Vice President
Location: Sandy Spring, Maryland
Organization: First Citizens Bank
Carl L. Hairston is Area Executive Vice President for First Citizens Bank where he is responsible for the local operations in the DC Metro and Northern Virginia regions. Carl has oversight of FCB’s commercial and consumer loan and deposit portfolios with a primary focus on business and commercial clients through our branch and corporate office locations. Carl possesses over 35 years of financial services experience, holding various roles over the span of his banking career.
Carl was formally-credit trained in Fleet Bank’s (now Bank of America) Corporate Credit Training Program over 25 years ago. Carl completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Marketing and Human Resource Development) and Master’s of Business Administration degree at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York. In 2023, Carl completed FCB’s Executive Leadership Development Program, Elevate in Greensboro, NC and in 2014, Carl M&T’s Senior Leadership Development Program at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He is a 2014 recipient of a Washington Business Journal Minority Business Leader Award, 2011 recipient of an Emerging Leader Award from Associated Black Charities, 2008 recipient of the Minority Business Summit’s Men of Influence Award, 2007 recipient of the Baltimore Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 Award, and 2003 recipient of the Rochester Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 Award and an Alum of Leadership Greater Washington’s Class of 2012.
Currently, Carl serves on the boards of the Business Finance Group, Inc., Alliance for Early Success and the Campagna Center. Carl has served on a number of other boards including the Greater Washington Society of CPAs, National Association for the Education of Young Children and is a Past Board Chair of the DC Chamber of Commerce and Culture Capital (f/k/a The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington) as well as the Washington DC Economic Partnership and Morgan State University Foundation. He is also a member of professional fraternity, Sigma Pi Phi and a Financial Literacy Facilitator for Wilderness Leadership and Learning, Inc.
Carl resides in Sandy Spring, Maryland with his wife and two daughters.
