40-year banking industry veteran promoted to senior position in Sarasota

After four years overseeing growth at BayFirst National Bank, Thomas Quale was named an executive vice president at the St. Petersburg-based bank.

Quale, according to a statement, has been in the banking industry for 40 years. 

This isn’t Quale’s first promotion at BayFirst, becoming a market president in 2018 and the chief lending officer in 2021. This year alone, he oversaw the purchase of the building in the Newtown neighborhood of Sarasota that BayFirst has been renting since January 2022. The bank plans to convert the loan production office and financial resource center into a full-service banking center.