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Mark Mason is a Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at HOMESTREET BANK and is based in Greater Seattle Area. He attended California State Polytechnic University, Pomona between 1980 and 1983.

Brian Reed is a Chief Credit Officer at Summit State Bank.

Rick Saunders has worked in finance and banking as his career of choice from an early age. From 1983 through 1997, Mr. Saunders was Senior Vice President and City Executive of Florence for Pee Dee State Bank, where he was also a member of the Senior Loan Committee and Board of Directors. During this time, his responsibilities included Corporate Banking, Business Development, and Policy Making. From 1997 to 1998, he served as Senior Market Executive with Centura Bank after its merger with Pee Dee State Bank. In 1998, he began organizing First Reliance Bank and presently serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Saunders is currently a member of many civic and charity organizations. He was awarded the Order of the Palmetto by Governor McMasters (2019) for his dedication and contributions to the well-being of South Carolina and its communities. He has been recognized with an Entrepreneur Award for his contributions to the prosperity of the Pee Dee Region by the Florence-Darlington Technical College’s Educational Foundation (2016), named Business Man of the Year (2007, Florence Chamber of Commerce), the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2007), and the Beta Gamma Sigma honoree from Francis Marion University School of Business (2004-2005). He is also a member of the Florence County Foster Care Review Board, the South Carolina Foster Care Review Board, the Board of Directors for First Reliance Bank and First Reliance BancShares, the Florence Rotary Club, and the Florence Baptist Temple. Mr. Saunders has served as a member of the McLeod Foundation Board of Trustees and prior to that served as a Director for the Advisory Board for the McLeod Foundation, the Florence Chamber of Commerce, the SC Chamber of Commerce, the South Carolina Bankers Association,the SC Bankers Association Legislative Committee, the Independent Banks of South Carolina and he is a past member of the South Carolina State Board of Financial Institutions. He has also been a past board member for the local chapter of Young Life Ministries, the South Carolina Bankers Association Community Bankers Council, the Advisory Board for the Business Education Program for Florence School District One, the Advisory Board for the Florence Easter Seals, the United Way of Florence, Pee Dee State Bank and Pee Dee Bancshares, and the Home Builders Association of the Greater Pee Dee Area. Mr. Saunders graduated from the South Carolina Bankers School, a cooperative program with the College of Business Administration of the University of South Carolina in 1986. Two years later, he graduated from the Southeastern School of Agriculture Lending, a cooperative program with the College of Agricultural Science of Clemson University.

Christopher D Farrar is a President, CEO & Co-Founder at VELOCITY COMMERCIAL CAPITAL.

He joined Santander in 2002 and was appointed senior executive vice president of the Financial Management and Investor Relations division in 2004 (Group Chief Financial Officer). He also served as director at SAM Investments Holdings Limited, Santander Consumer Finance, S.A. and Santander Holdings US, Inc. He also sat on the supervisory boards of Santander Consumer AG, Santander Consumer Holding GmbH and Santander Bank Polska, S.A. He was also a board member of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, S.A. (BME).