Brock elected financial VP at Samford

Brock elected financial VP at Samford

Harry B. "Buck" Brock III of Birmingham has been elected vice president for business affairs at Samford University in Birmingham, effective March 8.

Brock, 51, was elected by the university’s trustee executive committee upon the recommendation of Samford President Andrew Westmoreland. He replaces Joseph W. "Bill" Mathews Jr., who will retire June 1. Brock had served as a Samford trustee since 1998. Most recently, he was chair of the trustees’ investments committee. He has been president of Express Oil Development Co. in Birmingham during recent years after a long career with Central Bancshares and Compass Bank. For several years, he was president of Central Bank in Huntsville and later in Birmingham. He began a 17-year career with Compass as an intern while a student at the University of Alabama, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in 1977.

Brock and his wife, Nancy, are parents of two children. They are members of Mountain Brook Baptist Church, Birmingham, in Birmingham Baptist Association. (SU)