Board Of Directors
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 Suellen Rodeffer Garner, DDS
Suellen Rodeffer Garner, DDS, born October 1956, Class II Director, serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Coastal Banking Company and First National Bank of Nassau County. Dr. Garner joined the Board October 1, 2005 having served as a director of First Capital Bank Holding Corporation and First National Bank of Nassau County since August 1, 1998. Ms. Garner served as a director of Barnett Bank from 1990-1998. In addition, Ms. Garner is a licensed orthodontist and a partner of Suellen Rodeffer and David Todd Garner DDS, PA since 1993.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
As Chair Person, De Facto member of all committees
 Christina H. Bryan
Christina H. Bryan, born September 1945, Class I Director, joined the Board October 1, 2005 having served as a director of First Capital Bank Holding Corporation and First National Bank of Nassau County since August 1, 1998. Ms. Bryan is co-owner of several businesses: Florida Petroleum Corporation, Rex Corporation, and YCG, Inc. She is a board member of Baptist Medical Center-Nassau and is Chairman of the McArthur YMCA. She is active in her church as a Trustee and Stephen Minister. As a University of Florida graduate she serves as Director of Gator Boosters.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
Audit and Compliance, Executive Compensation, Lending South
 Dennis O. Green
Dennis O. Green, CPA, born November 1940, Class II Director and Vice Chairman of the Board, is a founding director. He served as Chief Auditor for Citicorp, and its principal banking subsidiary, Citibank N.A. in New York, New York, from February 1990 to July 1997, when he retired. He graduated in 1967 from Wayne State University with a degree in Business Administration/Finance and was licensed as a Certified Public Accountant by the State of Michigan in 1969. Mr. Green is managing member and founder of Celadon LLC, developer of “Celadon”, a New Traditional Neighborhood development on Lady’s Island, Beaufort, SC. He is a Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Adesa, Inc. He is Director and President of The Olive Tree Foundation, Director of Gray Holdings, LLP, Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Venture Inc. of Beaufort and Director and President of the Boys and Girls Club of Beaufort.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
Audit and Compliance (Chairman), Corporate Governance and Nominating
 Mark B. Heles
Mark B. Heles, born November 1949, Class III Director, is a founding director of Coastal Banking Company, Inc., and served from May 1999 until October 2005 after which he continued as a director on the Lowcountry National Bank Board. He was re-elected to the Coastal Banking Company, Inc. Board in May 2008 to fill a vacancy. He has served on multiple committees and has chaired the personnel, compensation, options and business development committees, and currently serves on the Executive Compensation and the Lending North Committees. In 1976, he graduated from the University of South Carolina with a BS degree in Business Administration/Finance. He is the former president and founder of TempO Personnel Services, Inc., a full-service staffing agency with offices in Beaufort and Hilton Head Island, SC, which he sold in 2002. He is a graduate of the South Carolina Bankers Association Directors College. Mr. Heles is a former president of the Hilton Head Island Rotary Club and past director for the Greater Beaufort Chamber of Commerce. He currently serves as president of H&H Quality Properties, LLC, a commercial and residential real estate holding company.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
Executive Compensation and Lending North
 James W. Holden, Jr.
James W. Holden, Jr., born October 1959, Class I Director, is a founding director. Dr. Holden is a licensed Veterinarian in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, and has been practicing Veterinary Medicine in Beaufort since 1986. He has owned Holly Hall Animal Hospital since 1988 and established Sea Island Animal Hospital in 1999. Dr. Holden is also owner and general partner of James W. Holden & Company, LLC, a real estate holding company. He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Georgia in 1983 and his Bachelor of Science from Clemson University in 1979. He served as founding chairman of the board of directors of the Lowcountry Estuarium, a non-profit marine science education center located in Port Royal, South Carolina from 2001 through 2004. He is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Beaufort. He is a 2003 graduate of the South Carolina Banker’s Association Director’s College and is an organizing director of First National Bank of Virginia (proposed) in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
Executive Coporate Governance and Nominating (Chairman) and Lending North
 Ladson F. Howell
Ladson F. Howell, born July 1943, Class II Director and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Coastal Banking Company and Lowcountry National Bank and is a founding director. He is licensed to practice law in South Carolina and retired in January 2000 as a practicing attorney with Howell, Gibson & Hughes, PA, a law firm located in Beaufort, South Carolina, since 1968. He has returned to work for Beaufort County as Staff Attorney. He received his law degree from the University of South Carolina Law School in 1968 and a degree in Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1965. Mr. Howell was a former President of the Beaufort County Bar Association. He currently is a member of the South Carolina State Bar Association, and the Board of Trustees of Carteret Street United Methodist Church.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
Executive Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and Lending North
 James C. Key
James C. Key, born October 1939, Class I Director, is a founding Director. Mr. Key is Managing Partner of Shenandoah Group, LLP, a firm providing risk management, controls, and governance solutions. He is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). Mr. Key served as Director, Internal Audit - North America and Asia Pacific at IBM Corporation in Armonk, New York until he retired in 1997. He graduated from Syracuse University with a BA in Liberal Studies. Mr. Key is active in the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and serves on their Professional Conferences Committee. He is a frequent speaker and facilitator at conferences and seminars and has developed and delivered training for the IIA and others. Mr. Key is President of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Beaufort, Dean of the Mountain School for Congregational Leadership, and serves on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Beaufort County. He is a member of Historic Beaufort and the Arts Council of Beaufort.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
Audit and Compliance, Corporate Governance and Nominating
 Robert B. Pinkerton
Robert B. Pinkerton, born February 1941, Class III Director, is a founding Director. Mr. Pinkerton has been President and CEO of Athena Corporation, a manufacturer and fabricator of custom products for the construction industry since 1990. Prior to that he was President and CEO of Blackstone Corporation (now part of Valeo) a multinational original equipment manufacturer of automotive engine cooling systems. He is also a principal in Beaufort Land Company, LLC and Village Renaissance, Inc., both developers in Beaufort, SC. He holds a law degree, two engineering degrees and is a graduate of the South Carolina Bankers Association Directors College. He serves as chairman of the Beaufort Redevelopment Commission, Treasurer of St Mark’s Chapel, on the Board of the Episcopal Forum of South Carolina, and is a former Assistant District Governor of Rotary.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
Executive Compensation and Management Resources, Lending North (Chairman)
 Michael G. Sanchez
Michael G. Sanchez, born October 1949, Class I Director. He is the current President & CEO of Coastal Banking Company and CBC National Bank since May 2008 and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of First National Bank of Nassau County, one of our subsidiary banks, since its inception in July 1999. He was formerly the president of Premier Bank, Atlanta, Georgia, and Summerville National Bank, Summerville, SC. He has over 30 years banking experience in large regional banks and in community banks in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1971 with a degree in Political Science.
 Edward E. Wilson
Edward E. Wilson, born March 1951, Class III Director, is President and Owner of Morrow Insurance Group, Inc., an independent insurance agency concentrating on property and casualty insurance, employee benefits and financial services in North Florida and South Georgia since 1985. He has offices in Madison, Yulee and Amelia Island. He is a member of the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors and has held his CIC Designation since 1985. He previously was owner and president of Investors Insurance Co. in Tallahassee, Florida and vice president of Variable Investment Plans, in Winter Park, Florida. He has served as president and member of several social and business groups and organizations including the North Central Florida Regional Planning Counsel, Lions Club, Seminole Boosters, Boy Scouts of America and presently sits on several committees of the First Baptist Church of Fernandina Beach. He currently is president of EEW Holdings, Inc. an investment-oriented company and a managing partner in Crooked River Pavilion LLC, an entertainment venue. Mr. Wilson attended Florida State University, majoring in Advertising and Public Relations.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
Executive Compensation and Management Resources (Chairman),
Audit and Compliance, Lending South
 Marshall E. Wood
Marshall E. Wood, born May 1946, Class III Director, was elected to the Coastal Banking Company Board of Directors in May, 2007, and was a member of the Board of Directors of First Capital Bank Holding Corporation since 1998. Mr. Wood served as a director of Barnett Bank from 1981 to 1997, and its successor, Nations Bank (Jacksonville), until May, 1998. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1968 with a degree in Business Administration and from the University of Tennessee with a Juris Doctor degree in 1972. He is engaged in the practice of law in Fernandina Beach, Florida. Mr. Wood serves as a director of the Boys & Girls Club of Nassau County and as a director of Baptist Medical Center Nassau.
Coastal Banking Company Committee Assignments:
Audit and Compliance, Lending South (Chairman)
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