CEO, South Atlantic Bank

Experience

Wicker serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of South Atlantic Bancshares Inc. and South Atlantic Bank. He is a veteran banker with 37 years of experience in the Myrtle Beach and South Carolina markets, and a founding Director of South Atlantic Bank and South Atlantic Bancshares. 

Community

Wicker currently serves as Treasurer and a Board member of the American Bankers Association.  He is the Past Chairman of the South Carolina Bankers Association.  In 2018, he was appointed by the governor to serve as a board member of the South Carolina State Board of Financial Institutions.  Wicker also serves on the board of The Citadel Brigadier Foundation and is involved in several community activities, having served on the boards of the South Carolina Young Bankers Association, the Myrtle Beach Area and North Myrtle Beach Chambers of Commerce. A former member of the SC Air National Guard, Wicker is a Gulf War veteran.

Education

Wicker earned a bachelor’s degree from The Citadel, and he also completed The Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University and the South Carolina Bankers School.