BankPlus's Chris Roberts Elected MYB President 2025-2026
Madison County Banker Chris Roberts elected President
of Mississippi Young Bankers
Madison County banker
Chris Roberts has been elected to serve as president of Mississippi Young
Bankers, a section of the Mississippi Bankers Association.
Since 1950,
Mississippi Young Bankers has been active in providing leadership development
activities, supporting financial literacy programs of the MBA and its member
banks. MYB members are involved in administering scholarship programs for high
school and college students, supporting the MBA Education Foundation, and
advocating policy positions important to a strong banking industry.
Roberts serves as City President for BankPlus in Canton.
He has over 20 years of banking experience, beginning his career with M&F
(now Renasant Bank). He moved to BankPlus in June 2014 focusing on business
development and commercial lending. Roberts earned his bachelor’s in business
administration in marketing from Mississippi State University in 2002 and is a
2017 graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at LSU.
Roberts has been involved with the MBA since the
beginning of his banking career and previously served on the MYB Council from
2019-2022, and then as Treasurer 2023-2024 and Vice President 2024-2025. In
addition to his role as president of the MYB, Roberts will serve as a trustee
for the Mississippi School of Banking and on the MBA Education Foundation
Board. He will also serve a one-year term as ex-officio member on the MBA
Board.
Also, very involved in his
community, Roberts has served as a County Chairman, was the 2016 Group 6
Chairperson of the Year, and has participated in the MYB “Banker in Every
Classroom” program. Roberts was named to the Mississippi Business Journal Top
50 Under 40 in 2017, the Madison City Chamber Top 10 Under 40 in 2017 and was
the Madison County Business League and Foundation Young Professional of the
Year in 2017. Roberts was part of the Class of 2019 Best Dressed Jackson,
raising funds and awareness for the American Cancer Society, and participated
in the Real Men Wear Pink Campaign in 2022, raising funds and awareness for
breast cancer. He was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the
Madison County Business League and Foundation in 2022.
Roberts is a member of Chapel of The Cross in Madison
and is a graduate of both Leadership Madison County and Leadership Greater
Jackson.
Roberts and his wife, Lisa, have three children, Lucy,
Hugh, and Oliver.