Charlie B. Crawford, Jr.

Charles B. (Charlie) Crawford, Jr., is Chairman & CEO of Hyperion Bank. He joined the bank in August 2017 and in 2018 led a significant recapitalization. In 2019 Charlie and his team expanded Hyperion Bank, opening a second location in Atlanta. They also launched Hyperion Mortgage (2020), an Atlanta-based joint venture licensed to lend in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina & Tennessee.

Hyperion’s revenue growth led to its inclusion in the Philadelphia Business Journal’s “Soaring 76” list of the region’s fastest-growing businesses for 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023. (Hyperion is HQ in PHL.) In 2023, the Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers (PACB) recognized Charlie as the organization’s incoming Chair-Elect; he was previously PACB Vice Chair, served on its Diversity Task Force & was PACB’s 2022 Banker of the Year. He also serves on the board of the Community Bankers Association of Georgia.

Upon being named among the Georgia Titan 100 for the third year in a row (2024), Charlie was selected to the Titan 100 Hall of Fame. Titan recognizes the state’s Top 100 CEOs & C-level executives. A champion of community banking for 30+ years, he previously founded three thriving banks in Atlanta. In 2016 Private Bank of Buckhead – one of the community banks founded & helmed by Charlie – was included in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. He completed the successful merger of that bank and its mortgage division into a southern U.S. regional bank in 2017. He frequently speaks on banking & related topics and is quoted about same, in media outlets ranging from American Banker and Independent Banker to U.S. News & World Report.

Charlie holds undergraduate degrees (B.A. in Economics & B.S. in Management) from the University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School of Business and earned his MBA from Georgia State University. He is a graduate of the LSU School of Banking and Leadership Atlanta. For the third academic year Charlie is teaching Scaling a New Venture in Georgia State’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation Institute, part of the Robinson College of Business. In late 2023 he was recognized with the Harvey Brightman Part-Time Instructor Teaching Award at GSU’s Robinson College of Business Fall 2023 faculty meeting. Charlie also serves on the Advisory Board for the Fischer-Shain Center for Financial Services in the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and serves on the board of the Chief Executives Organization, for which he also is on the Executive Committee as International Chair of Finance. Charlie is a member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta.

He is a director of McKenney’s, one of the country’s largest mechanical contractors; until its recent sale, he also was an advisor to CDE Services, a tech-driven POS solutions provider. In addition to Hyperion Bank’s Board, Charlie serves on the board of Hyperion Mortgage. He has been honored with awards for Entrepreneurship and for his service on numerous nonprofit boards, including the J. Mack Robinson College of Business (Georgia State University), The Carter Center (Board of Councilors), the Georgia Tennis Foundation, the Atlanta History Center, the Buckhead Coalition (Treasurer) and the Atlanta Track Club (Chair).