R. Lee Burrows, Jr.

Lee is the co-founder of UB Bancorp, and its banking subsidiary, Union Bank headquartered in Greenville, NC. He served as Chairman of the Board of this $1.2B asset bank until its merger with FNB Corp of Pennsylvania in 2023. Lee also founded the Atlanta-based financial services investment banking firm, Banks Street Partners, LLC in 2009. He served as the firm’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until the 2019 sale to Chicago-based Performance Trust Capital Partners where he currently serves as Vice Chairman of Investment Banking. Lee also serves as a director of Carolina Finance, LLC; L. Harvey & Sons, Co.; Harvey Fertilizer & Gas; Sid Mashburn Inc., and Gleneagles Capital Management. Additionally, Lee is the Managing Partner of Farmwheels, LLC, a multi-faceted investment fund focused on investing in growing and vibrant businesses. 

On the philanthropic side, Lee is a member of the Board of Trustees at Atlanta Youth Academy, where he has served for over twenty-five years; he is also a Trustee with Washington, DC-based Institute for Responsible Citizenship; a Board Member of the Hussman School of Journalism at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; a member of the Board of Trustees for the Berklee College of Music in Boston; and serves on the board of the Institute of Arts & Humanities at The University of North Carolina. Lee is also a member of the Investment Committee of Savannah College of Art & Design (“SCAD”) in Savannah, GA and a member of the Yale Divinity School Dean’s Advisory Committee. Lee also serves as a Board Member for the Atlanta Police Foundation. Lee is also the co-founder and a Trustee for the Hopeful/Honest Initiative on Race & Understanding.

Lee graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1982 where he earned a B.A. in Journalism and Marketing and Lee received his MBA from The Goizueta School of Business at Emory University in Atlanta.