Most Admired Companies of 2024: FirstBank

Fifty-five companies have risen from the constantly evolving and ever-challenging business environment to earn the right to call themselves Arizona’s Most Admired Companies of 2024, including FirstBank.

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Arizona’s Most Admired Companies will be honored at a celebratory dinner on Oct. 3 at Chateau Luxe in Phoenix. To learn more of to get tickets, click here. For sponsorship information, email Amy Lindsey, publisher of AZ Big Media, at amy.lindsey@azbigmedia.com.

FirstBank

Top Arizona executive: Joel Johnson

What it does: One of the nation’s largest privately held banks with a focus on “banking for good.”

Community impact: FirstBank’s emphasis on doing what’s right for customers, communities and employees, or what it refers to as “banking for good,” has helped the bank reach record growth while making a substantial impact on the communities it serves. Since 2000, FirstBank has been recognized as a leader in corporate philanthropy, contributing more than $92 million and thousands of volunteer hours to local nonprofits. Over the past few decades, FirstBank has embraced philanthropy as a fundamental aspect of its business philosophy. The bank firmly believes in investing in local communities, nonprofits and small businesses.