Paul H. Cornell

Paul H. Cornell has served on the Tulsa Community College Board of Regents since 2012. He is the founder and managing partner of Premier Solution Partners (PSP), a fast growing, multi-platform organization that partners with transformative technologies and helps grow them in the marketplace. He has 25-plus years of experience in public accounting, bank and bank holding company senior management, healthcare, and technology solutions. A results-oriented and highly organized leader, Regent Cornell is effective at finding creative solutions to challenges and getting results.

He served as President of Citizens Bankshares, Inc. and as a member of the CSB board of directors until a 2020 successful bank sale. Prior to Citizens, as President of Spirit Bankcorp, Inc. and Deputy CEO and Board member of at SpiritBank, Regent Cornell was responsible for affiliate expansion, development of an effective insurance agency solution, leading all capital market initiatives for the holding company, and development of an in-house secondary market mortgage solution.

A 1994 graduate of the Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Regent Cornell is a CPA and a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma. He is past chair of the Oklahoma Bankers Association, Young Presidents’ Association and the National OSU Alumni Association.