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Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Hilton Head, South Carolina

Partnered with the executive leadership committee, empowered the operations departments, and supported a dynamic team of community and commercial bankers to deliver thoughtful solutions and practical advice. Helped launch the growth of our relationship-based LOCAL philosophy beyond the South Carolina Lowcountry as we developed multiple new community and commercial banking centers across Georgia and new lines of business across the country. Focused primarily on Board and corporate governance issues; legal department buildout; risk management, compliance, and thirty-party risk (vendor) management; human resources; facilities and corporate services; marketing.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Joined fast-growing regional bank (FORTUNE 100 Fastest Growing Companies, 2016) to strengthen corporate infrastructure during integration of largest acquisition and preparation for acquisition by Pinnacle Financial Partners. Provided counsel and insight as executive liaison to the Board's corporate governance and nominating committee and as part of committees for new business initiatives, compliance strategy, and information security.

Greater Atlanta Area

Founded in 2010, CSB successfully executed a combined acquisition and organic growth strategy to become a $4.4 Billion regional financial institution in less than six years. We seek to become the financial institution of choice in our markets by exceeding the expectations of our clients and our communities. Innovative Leadership: • Managed corporate legal department, responsible for day-to-day institutional legal issues, including subpoena, discovery, garnishment, and related legal-process responses, and conducting internal investigations. • Designed, implemented, and managed company's contract review and management workflow; negotiated a wide variety of commercial contracts, including IT-related SaaS and platform-implementation service agreements. • Managed, with GC & CFO, due-diligence and transactional documentation related to nine mergers and branch-banking asset acquisitions exceeding $1.4 Billion in assets.• Partnered with executive leadership to launch multiple lines of business and product platforms. Compliance & Regulatory Risk Management: • Designed, implemented, and managed bank-wide comprehensive vendor management platform.• Developed regulatory and risk-management strategies and provided guidance as member of company’s IT incident response and cybersecurity team.• Led business-continuity and disaster recovery response team during multiple inclement weather events, including primary responsibility for branch and operational center opening delays and cancellations for company’s entire retail footprint. • Provided expertise and oversight for compliance with multiple FDIC Shared-Loss Agreements.Litigation Strategy: • Managed the company litigation strategy and outside counsel engagements; reduced ~$10 Million annual legal expense budget and closed more than 1,000 files. Implemented web-based legal-matter management platform to streamline and automate billing and status reporting.

Greater Atlanta Area

Senior Associate in the commercial real estate practice group with extensive experience in retail and industrial development, leasing, and disposition, as well as cross-practice group management of real-estate related due diligence for mergers and acquisitions on behalf of timber-agribusiness, corporate, and energy clients. Distressed asset due diligence, acquisition, and disposition.

Panama City, Florida Area

Broad-based practice providing general counsel to residential developers and small-business owners in real estate, corporate, trademark, and construction transactions and litigation.

Greater Atlanta Area

Wells Fargo Financial - Consumer finance management training program with focus on consumer finance product sales, direct lending, retail financing business development, and collections. Awarded for outstanding regional performance, 1999.

J.D. - Juris Doctor, Law

Activities and Societies: Editor-in-Chief - Journal of Law and Public Policy

M.B.A. - Master Of Business Administration, Finance

Activities and Societies: GatorNest Consultant - Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

B.A., English

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi Fraternity

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