Brent Turpen, Chris Gagner and Amy Hutton have joined Pinnacle Financial Partners.

Turpen, with 26 years of experience, is a financial analyst. He comes to Pinnacle from CapStar Bank, where he was assistant controller. Prior roles were with American Security Bank & Trust in Hendersonville, where he was controller and chief accounting officer, and First Southern Bank in Florence, AL, where he was senior vice president of operations.

Turpen earned his bachelor's degree in finance and economics, and his master's degree in business administration from the University of North Alabama in Florence. He is also a graduate of the Alabama Banking School in Mobile.

Turpen is based at Pinnacle's downtown Nashville office at Pinnacle at Symphony Place.

Gagner joins Pinnacle as a financial accounting analyst. He brings 11 years of experience and comes to the firm from CapStar Bank, where roles included serving as a senior accountant and staff accountant. Previously Gagner was a staff accountant and human resources administrator for Peoples State Bank of Commerce in Nolensville, TN.

He attended Columbia State Community College.

Gagner is based at Pinnacle's Financial Center in Murfreesboro.

Hutton joins the firm as a finance specialist. She previously spent four years with KraftCPAs PLLC in Nashville, where she was a senior associate in assurance services.

Hutton earned her bachelor's degree in business administration and her masters of accountancy from Middle Tennessee State University. She is also a Certified Public Accountant. Hutton is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants.

She is also based at Pinnacle's Financial Center in Murfreesboro.