banker chairman philanthropist
Paul W. Bryant, Junior., was born circa 1945. His father, Bear Bryant, was an American football player and coach.
Bryant graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with a degree in Commerce in 1966.
Bryant graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with a degree in Commerce in 1966.
Bryant founded the People"s Bank in the late 1960s, and later sold lieutenant By 1977, he established GreeneTrack, dog racing track located in Greene County, Alabama, with A. Wayne May, a veterinarian, and Sam Phelps, a lawyer He went on to establish more tracks in Texas (for example in Louisiana Marque, Texas), Idaho, and Iowa.
By 1995, they were incorporated as GreenTrack, Incorporated.
As of 2009, he owned 72% of GreenTrack. Bryant is also the President of Greene County Greyhound Park.
He also serves as the President of Green Group, Incorporated. Bryant invests in "dog and horse racing, the insurance industry, cement making, catfish farming and banking." He is worth "hundreds of millions of dollars." In 1995, Bryant acquired Reynolds Ready Mix, a cement company later renamed Ready Mix United States of America. By 2011, he sold it to Cemex, a Mexican construction corporation, for United States$350 million.
In 1999, he acquired Harvest Select Catfish Incorporated., a company which raises catfish in Alabama and Mississippi.
In 2005, Bryant founded the Bryant Bank. He serves as its Chairman. He co-authored two books about American football in 2013.
Bryant served as the Chairman of the Civil War Trust.
He also served on the Boards of Trustees of the Alabama Heritage Foundation and the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, having previously served as its Chairman.
In March 2015, The Birmingham News revealed that many UA trustees worked or had relatives who worked for the Bryant Bank. He has donated millions of dollars to the Alabama Crimson Tide football program
A Columbia Broadcasting System story from December 2014 reported that Bryant Junior. is thought to be partially responsible for shuttering the UAB Football program, reportedly over a long-standing grudge with Gene Bartow over a 1991 letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
