Prominent Sarasota area banker announces retirement

From battling a recession to chasing the next deal to mentoring tomorrow’s banking leaders, Shaun Merriman packed a lot into 37 years.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 11:50 a.m. April 19, 2022
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Mark Wemple. Shaun Merriman has been a banker since 1985.
Mark Wemple. Shaun Merriman has been a banker since 1985.
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As a young banker building his career in the mid-1980s, Shaun Merriman had unique way to make a few extra bucks and decompress after work: he participated on the men’s water skiing team at SeaWorld in Orlando, working nights and weekends. “There was a six-month period where I don’t think I had a day off,” Merriman says.

 

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