Executive chairman

united bank

Richard Adams is Executive Chairman of United Bank. He is a graduate of West Virginia University and Stonier Graduate School of Banking, Rutgers University. Under Adams’ leadership, United completed 33 acquisitions, building United from a single-office, $100 million bank, into a $30 billion banking company with 250 offices in eight states and the nation’s capital. United is the largest state-chartered bank in Virginia and the largest community bank in the nation’s capital.

Adams was honored as the Washington Business Journal’s COVID-19 Response CEO of the Year. He has been inducted into the West Virginia Business Hall of Fame and was honored as recipient of the Ernst & Young Lifetime Achievement Award, Executive Magazine’s CEO of the Year Award and as YMCA Citizen of the Year. Adams served in the U.S. Army and on the Vestry of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. He and his wife, Liza, have five children and 10 grandchildren.