CommunityOne’s Brian Simpson: “I’m sad that I won’t be with the company as it moves forward”

Brian Simpson has dedicated the past three years to guiding an unprecedented and remarkable turnaround of Asheboro-based CommunityOne Bank back to profitability, including engineering a $310 million recapitalization and merging CommunityOne with Bank of Granite to form what’s now among the largest community banks in the state...