Midland is the holding company for Midland Federal Savings and Loan Association. As an investor in the acquisition group and subsequent to the purchase of Midland, I'm excited to assist in the new policy, direction and strategy for the holding company.

Claris Financial Advisors, Inc, headquartered in Atlanta, is pleased to announce that Bill Clement has been named Chair of its Advisory Board. Founded in 1998 by Lee Baker, CFP, Apex Financial Services, Inc. has been able to serve hundreds of families and businesses not only locally, but across the nation. Due to the firm’s dedicated financial planning and investment process, they now manage millions of dollars for their clients. For more information on Claris, visit at https://www.clarisfinancialadvisors.comBill is a former Director of Herndon Capital, a Registered Investment Advisory firm and a subsidiary of Atlanta Life, for approximately 9 years. He was actively involved in its formation, its business plan, the development and execution of the firm's marketing strategy. From its inception in 2002 to 2011, Herndon grew from zero to approximately $12 billion in Assets Under Management.

TRX, Inc (NASDAQ: TRXI) was acquired by Concur (NASDAQ: CNQR) on July 16, 2013TRX was a world-leading travel technology and data services provider, offering more than 20 software-as-a-service utilities for online booking, reservation processing, data intelligence, and process automation.Served on audit and compensation committees.

Founded in 1905, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, the flagship of Atlanta Life Financial Group, is comprised of Group Reinsurance and Atlanta Life General Agency. Atlanta Life Insurance Company and its subsidiary, Atlanta Life General Agency provide insurance products to businesses and individuals.As the non-Executive Board Chair, developed strategy and oversaw the transition of Atlanta Life to a financial services holding company pursuant to the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999.I was the former non-Executive Chairman and co-founding stockholder of The Clement Insurance Group, Incorporated, a multi-line insurance agency. I was awarded the Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation by the American College of Chartered Life Underwriters. I am a third generational insurance professional.

Radiant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: RADS) was acquired by NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) on August 24, 2011 in a transaction valued at approximately $1.2 billion.Radiant was a global leader in providing innovative technology to the hospitality and retail industries. Radiant provided a POS software solutions for businesses of all sizes. As a SaaS vendor, Radiant solutions and applications allowed businesses of all sizes to run its general ledger; inventory; H/R; analytics; network security, etcFormer Chair of Audit Committee for 4 years [[designated by company as an audit committee financial expert]; and member of Governance Committee and the Enterprise Risk Committe

DOBBS, RAM, & Company is an information technology firm which provides services and solutions in the FinTech sector. The company has 4 niche markets: Dobbs, as an IBM Business partner, provides “turn-key” IT systems to municipal governments. DOBBS provided hardware, software and a tax-free lease for financing to local governmental units; the company designed, installed and provided maintenance on these IT systems.Dobbs was a sub-contractor engaged by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), from 1991 to 2006, to maintain its State Retrieval Subsystem of the “E-Filing System”, the federal system for filing income taxes. Dobbs was involved in the design, implementation and maintenance of the “E-Filing System. Each electronically filed state return is processed through a system designed, implemented and maintained by Dobbs. The Company provided twenty-four hour, seven-day software support to the six IRS Electronic Filing Service Centers across the United States.Dobbs developed a custom-designed management information system for issuers of tax-exempt bonds, including a proprietary software product, ARBI COMP™, to allow issuers to be in compliance with the federal statutes & implementing regulations.Dobbs served as Financial Advisor to local government units in the issuance of tax-exempt bonds for major capital projects such as the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, MARTA, Atlanta Zoo , water & sewer projects and general municipal projectsI sold my equity position in the company in 2008.

Presidential appointee to Board of Directors of the National Cooperative Bank which provides comprehensive banking products and services to cooperatives and other member-owned organizations throughout the country.

Small Business Administration - manager for multi-billion dollar federal procurement program with staff of over 430 people; Presidential & political appointee in The Carter Administration. Served on the Management Board of SBA for 4 years.

Chairman of the bank's Credit Committee. Responsible for credit policy, credit administration, the lending function and the recovery/collection division. Performed as senior bank officer for interface with internal auditor, external auditors and bank examiners. For approximately 6 months in 1975, was designated by the Board @ Citizens Trust Bank as the "chief operating officer" during the board's search for a new President & CEO.