• Pinnacle Financial Partners appointed Veda Cloud, Atlanta-based, and Chris Jones, Nashville-based, as financial advisors in restaurant finance.
• Both join the Restaurant and Franchise Finance Services team, reporting to Scott Tocci, managing director of franchise finance.
• Cloud previously spent 16 years at Wells Fargo as managing director of franchisee finance for the Southeast and Northeast.
• Jones most recently served as a managing director at MidCap Financial, following commercial lending roles at GE Capital, TD Bank, and CIT Group.

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