Mr. Connors is the President and Chief Credit Officer of Trustar Bank, located in Tysons Corner, Virginia, serving the greater Washington, D.C. area. He is a founding director of the Bank and has served as a director since Bank’s inception in 2019. Mr. Connors has been in the commercial banking industry in the Washington area for 40 years.

Mr. Connors most recently served as EVP and Division Head of the Virginia and Washington D.C. commercial markets for Maryland based Sandy Spring Bank.

Prior to this position, Mr. Connors was a founding director and served as President and Chief Credit Officer of WashingtonFirst Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of WashingtonFirst Bankshares, Inc. Under Mr. Connors’ leadership, the Bank grew to 20 branches and over $2 billion in assets in the 14 year history from its start to being sold to Sandy Spring Bank. The loan quality was held to a high standard, including during the times of acquisitions of other banks.

Mr. Connors serves as Chairman of WeCareDMV Day Services, Inc.
(formerly United Cerebral Palsy of Washington, DC & Northern VA), serving on the Board since 2002.

He is currently a member of the faculty of the National Commercial Lending School under the Center for Financial Training (faculty member since 2001), where he also serves on the Board (since 2004).

Mr. Connors is active in his community serving as the Treasurer of The Falls Church Anglican as well as the Treasurer of 6565 Arlington Boulevard, LLC, the real estate entity that manages the Church, a 144,000 SF office building and a 560 parking space garage (since 2013). He was active in the scouting community in Arlington, VA serving as Pack Master and Life to Eagle Coordinator for Pack 641 and Troop 106, respectively.

Since 2016, Mr. Connors serves as a US Trustee and Finance Chair to the Anglican Relief and Development Fund, an organization that raises funds and develops sustainable projects in disaster stricken regions of the world; and Treasurer for Trustar Youth Foundation (formerly the WashingtonFirst Youth Foundation). Mr. Connors has been a guest lecturer at the Marymount University since 2020 and at Virginia Tech and James Madison University in 2023.

Mr. Connors was recently named Alumnus of the Year for his High School celebrating their 60th Anniversary and Champion of the Year for the Young Men’s Christian Association of Metropolitan Washington.

Mr. Connors graduated from Centre College with a BS in Economics (1982) and holds an MBA from George Mason University (1990).