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Mary Kay was named Credit Executive, Central Credit in December, 2008 in preparation for the National City integration into PNC. As Credit Executive, she recently completed building the capabilities in Cleveland and Indianapolis to handle all new commercial loan adjudication and portfolio management for about ½ of PNC’s commercial loans in numerous business lines that have exposure of $3MM or less, as the rest of the portfolio is served by another site under her counterpart’s direction. She also has responsibility for PNC’s delivery of government sponsored lending across the entire geography. For the last several years, Mary Kay served as Chair of the Business Banking Risk Management Committee, which served as a model for PNC’s newly created Channel 1 Risk Management Committee, which is charged with monitoring and managing all aspects of credit risk within Channel 1.Previously she was Chief Credit Officer and Director, Business Banking Credit Services, positions she held since April, 2005. Prior to that, Mary Kay was State Sales Executive, Business Banking, and led a sales force of over 130 professionals located in Ohio and Michigan, working closely with small business owners, their families and their employees to increase their financial strength. In the past, Mary Kay has been heavily involved in strategic planning for the business line, enabling the bank to deliver the right services, competitively and in a timely and convenient manner for small business owners. She has been a frequent speaker on both sales and credit topics at industry conferences. She joined National City in June, 1985 as a branch management trainee. She held successive positions in Branch Management, Commercial Lending, Regional Branch Administration, Wealth Management and Small Business Banking. She completed National City’s Executive Development Program in 2002.

Marco Fortier has worked at TD Insurance in Canada for over 5 years in Strategic planning, Actuarial and Corporate development roles. His current principal responsibilities include transforming current business models into an innovative model that will allow TD to better integrate its offerings within the stores, and build efficient 24/7 operations capable to compete with direct writers. He has 30 years of experience in the financial sector including Insurance, Banking and Investment in a wide variety of role going from finance, claims, actuarial, strategic planning, IT, and corporate development. BA in Mathematics from Laval University, MBA in Finance from Laval and York Universities and professional accountant (CMA).

Tom was named Managing Director and Head of Business Banking at The PrivateBank in 2010. His current responsibilities include overseeing the Small Business Banking division that specializes in businesses with annual revenues up to $10 million. Prior to joining The PrivateBank, Tom was Senior Vice President and Group Manager for Small Business and Retail Banking at First Chicago Bank and Trust. Responsibilities included managing a team of Business Banking Relationship Managers and overseeing the bank’s seven retail branches through a network of Regional Market Managers and in-branch Customer Service Managers. Before his time with First Chicago, Tom was Group Senior Vice President of Business Banking in the Midwest for LaSalle Bank, part of ABN AMRO Bank. Tom’s responsibilities included managing 80 Relationship Managers as well as a centralized credit underwriting and portfolio management center, risk management, reporting and project management, and small business marketing. Prior experience includes the positions of Business Banking Regional Manager at Bank One in Chicago and Branch Manager and Business Banker with First Union National Bank in Orlando, Florida. He started his career at Barne Bank in Stuart, Florida in their Commercial Management Training program, later serving in commercial banking and as a Branch Manager. Tom graduated from Northern Illinois University with a B.S. degree in Finance and holds an M.B.A. from Crummer Graduate School at Rollins College in Florida.

George Buchanan oversees credit for the Business Banking and Private Wealth Management Groups for Regions Financial Corporation, a top U.S. bank-holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with $119 billion in assets, operating over 1,700 banking offices in 16 states.Buchanan joined Regions in 2011 from U.S. Bank where he served as senior vice president and Chief Credit Officer for Small Business and Affluent Banking. Prior to joining U.S. Bank in 2007, Buchanan was the Business Banking senior credit officer for Regions Financial, where he served in many credit roles during his 13 years with Regions and its predecessor, AmSouth.� He began his banking career at First Union in 1992 as a credit analyst.In addition to serving as president from 2009 to 2011, Buchanan is an executive committee and board member for the Small Business Financial Exchange. �Buchanan is an active member within the Risk Management Association, currently serving as the Chair of the Small Business Committee, the Dean’s Business Council for the University of Illinois College of Business, and is on the Board of Directors for Opera Birmingham.� He has also served as the Small Business committee chair for the Consumer Bankers Association and is currently an at-large member.He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Auburn University.