[2] He was responsible for its 1990 merger with the Citizens & Southern National Bank and served as president of the surviving organization.
[7] In 2000, Bottorff co-founded Council Capital, a private equity firm in Nashville, serving as Managing General Partner until 2016.
[2] Bottorff has served on the board of trust of his alma mater, Vanderbilt University, since 1990 [3] and as its vice chairman from 1999 to 2011 during which time he chaired the search committee for the 7th and 8th chancellor.
[12] He led the fundraising campaign for the center and, with his wife, donated over $700,000 to the United Way.19 Bottorff has served on and chaired the boards of the Nashville Symphony Association, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, the United Way of Middle Tennessee, the Tennessee Titans Advisory Board and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.20 [13] He has also served on the boards and served as the chairman of Partnership 2000, the Children's Hospital of Vanderbilt University and the Music City Bowl.
[14] and the advisory board of the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University.15[15] Bottorff and his wife, Jean, have two children.
[16] His son, Dennis "Chad" Bottorff, co-founded Eakin Partners, a commercial real estate firm in Nashville, in 1999.
His sons Todd and Chad also own a tequila company called TC Craft which is only in Nashville, Wyoming and Florida at the moment.
Hunt, Keel, Crossing the Aisle: How Bipartianships Brought Tennessee to the Twenty-First Century and Could Save America, November 6, 2018, Vanderbilt University Press, pages 245–246, 249–250.