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Wilmington Trust Adds Will Estess as Client Development Officer for Public Finance and Agency Team

Estess will promote corporate trust services to institutional, municipal, and corporate clients in Southeastern U.S. market

BIRMINGHAM, ALA—Wilmington Trust, N.A. added Will Estess as client development officer to its Public Finance and Agency team in the corporate trust office in Birmingham, Ala. Estess is responsible for introducing Wilmington Trust’s corporate trust services including trustee, paying agent, and escrow agent to corporations, municipalities, and other institutions throughout the Southeastern United States.


Before joining Wilmington Trust, Estess was an equipment finance relationship manager at Regions Bank. He has 12 years of commercial banking experience including credit analysis, lending, and portfolio management roles. Estess has experience working with corporations, municipalities, issuing authorities, school boards, utility districts, cooperatives, and various 501(c)3 organizations.

Estess earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Real Estate, Banking, and Finance from Mississippi State University. He is active in the community, previously serving on the governance committee of the Vestavia Hills Rotary Club, and is an active volunteer for the Junior Achievement’s JA in a Day program.

Estess is based in Wilmington Trust’s corporate trust office at 505 20th St., Suite 1750, in Birmingham. He can be contacted at (205)986-7535.