Jeffrey A. Powell

Citizens Republic Bancorp, Inc. is a diversified financial services company, which provides a full range of banking and financial services to individuals and businesses through its banking subsidiary, Citizens Bank. Its services include deposit products, loan products, and other consumer-oriented financial services such as safe deposit and night depository facilities, wealth management services and Automated Teller Machines. The company operates five major business lines: Regional Banking, Specialty Consumer, Specialty Commercial, Wealth Management and Other. The Regional Banking provides a wide range of lending, depository, and other related financial services to both individual consumers and businesses. The products and services offered to consumer clients include: direct loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, checking, savings and money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and fixed and variable annuities, as well as private banking services for affluent clients. The Specialty Consumer includes the indirect consumer and the residential mortgage portfolios. The Specialty Commercial provides a full range of lending, depository, and related financial services to commercial real estate developers, owners of multi-unit commercial properties, and middle-market companies. Products and services offered include commercial mortgages, term loans, revolving credit arrangements, letters of credit, inventory and accounts receivable financing, and leveraged cash flow lending. The Wealth Management offers a broad array of asset management, financial planning, estate settlement and trust administration, credit and deposit products and services. The Other line of business includes activities that are not directly attributable to one of the primary business lines. Citizens Republic was founded in 1871 and is headquartered in Flint, MI.

IBERIABANK Corp. operates as a financial holding company for Iberiabank, which engages in the provision of commercial, consumer, mortgage, and private banking products and services. The firm provides cash management and investment brokerage solutions. It operates through the following segments: IBERIABANK, Mortgage and LTC. The IBERIABANK segment provides commercial and retail banking functions including its lending, investment, and deposit services. The Mortgage segment offers funding and subsequent sale of one-to-four family residential mortgage loans. The LTC segment provides title insurance and loan closing services. The company was founded on November 21, 1994 and is headquartered in Lafayette, LA.

Hamilton State Bancshares, Inc. is a holding company of Hamilton State Bank that provides commercial banking services to small to medium-sized businesses in north Georgia. It conducts a full range of banking services from its branch locations, including: commercial, real estate and consumer lending, deposit products, cash management services, personal, business and online banking services. The company was founded on September 20, 2004 and is headquartered in Hoschton, GA.

Hamilton State Bank is a state chartered commercial bank. The company is based in Hoschton, GA.

Spirit of Texas Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company, which offers commercial and retail banking services. Its product offerings consist of a range of commercial products, including term loans and operating lines of credit to commercial and industrial companies, commercial real estate loans, construction and development loans, SBA loans, commercial deposit accounts, treasury management services, and retail offerings including consumer loans, 1-4 single family residential real estate loans, and retail deposit products. The company was founded by Dean O. Bass in 2008 and is headquartered in Conroe, TX.

Spirit of Texas Bank, SSB operates as state chartered savings bank. Its services include business, personal and lending services. The company is headquartered in College Station, TX.