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Tim Elsbrock, President of Fifth Third Bank, Greater Cincinnati
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Many of those who turn to Graydon
for counsel say the connection they
make runs deeper than the typical
client-lawyer relationship. One such
person, Tim Elsbrock, describes it as
something more along the lines of
family.
Tim is president of Fifth Third Bank, Greater Cincinnati. He has been with the
bank since 1986 and remembers when the Firm went by Graydon, Head & Ritchey.
He can cite the chairs of Graydon’s executive committee over the years, starting
with Nelson Schwab when Tim joined the bank, followed by Joe Head, Rob Kreidler,
Tom Brennan, John Kropp, Mike Hirschfeld, Mike Debbeler and, today, Tom Prewitt.
Tim was the bank’s relationship manager, or liaison, to the business side of
Graydon’s operation in the early days, along with about 75 Graydon clients.
“I’ve felt a part of the Firm’s family,
both when I was getting advice and
giving it as a business partner, from
early on. Whenever they’d have a
birthday party, the joke was that I’d
show up for the cake. So I feel like I
know the Firm at a deeper level than
just a vender or a business partner.
My relationships with many of them
transcends business altogether.”
The two institutions have been around
long enough to help shape Cincinnati.
Fifth Third traces its origins to 1858,
and Graydon was established in 1871,
some four years after the formal