Area banker takes passion for region to new heights

Chad Loar, PNC Bank’s west and central Florida regional president, says he has lived and worked on both sides of Tampa Bay and driven on most, if not all, of the roads in the region during his 20-year career in the area. It’s fitting, then, he finds himself the recently named chairman of the Tampa Bay Partnership, a privately funded, regional research and public policy organization — made up of a mix of business and civic leaders — whose key issues include transportation. 

‘We want to make sure we are providing a platform and a voice for helping out in the business and nonbusiness everyday lives of folks in our community because everything is part of the full circle of life. All of these issues overlap.’ Chad Loar, chairman of the Tampa Bay Partnership