Convention Agenda

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Featured Speakers

Opening Speaker
Monday, August 10, 2009
9:30 - 10:00 am

Joseph V. Battipaglia

Joe Battipaglia is market strategist-private client group for Stifel Nicolaus and is also the CIO of Washington Crossing Advisors which is a Stifel Nicolaus investment advisory program. He is the former chairman of investment policy at Ryan, Beck & Co., where he conducted strategic market and economic analysis in support of the firm's retail network and institutional presence. Prior to joining Ryan, Beck & Co. in 2002, Mr. Battipaglia served over an 18-year period in a number of executive positions at Gruntal & Co. Before joining Gruntal in 1984, he was a financial analyst for the Exxon Corporation and worked as a securities analyst at Elkins & Co. Mr. Battipaglia is featured frequently in the national media, including CNBC, FOX News, and Nightly Business Report. Additionally, he speaks regularly with reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications where his market views are often quoted. Mr. Battipaglia is a former trustee of the Securities Industry Institute, which is the Security Industry Association's premier leadership and management education program. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in economics from Boston College and earned his MBA at the Wharton Graduate School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Keynote Speaker
Monday, August 10, 2009
10:15 - 11:00 am

Christopher Low

Chris is Chief Economist for FTN Financial, the institutional investment arm of First Tennessee Bank National Association. Before joining FTN Financial in the summer of 1998, Chris spent eleven years as an economist and money manager at HSBC in New York.

Chris is a frequent and popular speaker at conferences and forums. He has a reputation for taking the most complicated concepts and making them simple. His forecasts and commentaries have a large national following.

Chris is widely quoted in the business press. He’s a regular on Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg radio and National Public Radio’s Marketplace. He regularly writes and delivers BBC radio’s US business news.

Chris is a member of the Bond Market Association’s Economic Committee. He is a graduate of New York University and lives with his wife and four children in Weston, Connecticut.

The View from Washington
Monday, August 10, 2009
11:00 - 11:30 am

Camden Fine

Camden R. Fine is president and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the only national trade association that exclusively represents community banks.

A native Missourian, Fine came to ICBA from the Midwest Independent Bank in Jefferson City, Mo. He chartered and organized the bankers’ bank and served MIB as president and CEO for nearly 20 years. In addition, Fine owned Mainstreet Bank of Ashland, Mo., a $45 million-asset community bank in Central Missouri.

Fine has a strong background in politics as well as banking. In 1978, he joined the Missouri state government as a budget analyst, and in 1981 former governor and current U.S. Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond appointed him director of the state Division of Taxation and Collection. In October 2000, Fine was appointed to the Federal Advisory Council of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System representing the 10th Federal Reserve District (Kansas City).

Fine was educated at the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is a distinguished graduate and past chairman of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking. Fine’s thesis titled Banker’s Banks: A Correspondent Alternative for Community Banks was published and included in the Harvard Business School library.

An active member of ICBA prior to becoming the association’s president and CEO, Fine served on the ICBA Bancard board, several standing committees and the ICBA board of directors. Fine has been a passionate advocate for community bank issues and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg, PBS, and NPR. In 2008, Fine was recognized by The Hill newspaper as one of the most effective and influential trade association CEOs and advocates in Washington, D.C.

Cynthia L. Blankenship

Cynthia L. Blankenship is chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the only national trade association that exclusively represents community banks.

Vice Chairman/Chief Operating Officer and charter shareholder of Bank of the West in Irving, Texas, Blankenship has served on the ICBA Executive Committee as chairman-elect and vice chairman. She presides at ICBA’s Executive Committee and board of directors meetings and is chairman of the ICBA Strategic Planning Committee.

Blankenship has been the chairman of the ICBA Congressional Affairs Committee and vice chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee. She previously served as chairman of the ICBA Bank Education Committee, Policy Development Committee, and Membership/Marketing Committee. She also serves on the ICBA Nominating Committee and as an ex-officio member of ICBA’s standing committees.

Blankenship held leadership positions in the Independent Bankers Association of Texas (IBAT) and the Community Bankers Association of Oklahoma, including chairman of IBAT and the IBAT Education Foundation.

Prior to her involvement with Bank of the West, Blankenship held management positions at Independent National Bank of Irving, First National Bank of Grapevine, and Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Krum, Texas. She attended Southern Methodist University, Texas Tech University and Louisiana State University.

Blankenship has testified on Capitol Hill before the House Financial Services Committee.

Blankenship was appointed Dean for Bankers and currently chairs the Southwestern School of Banking Foundation at Southern Methodist University. In 2004 U.S. Banker magazine named Blankenship one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Banking.

Blankenship’s community service includes: Colleyville Women’s Club, Community Bankers Education Foundation, Bear Creek Community Development Project, Dallas Summer Musicals and activities relating to Community Banking Month at Bank of the West. She is as member of the Irving/Las Colinas Women’s Chamber of Commerce and the recipient of the 1999 Arts Education Award and the 2004 Colleyville Women’s Club Novus Award.

Regulators' Panel

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
1:45 - 2:45 pm

Steve Jenkins is a Senior Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He is responsible for the Bank’s Supervision and Regulation Department which oversees more than 260 financial institutions in the Fourth Federal Reserve District, which includes Ohio, western Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky, and the northern panhandle of West Virginia. He also has responsibility for the Bank’s Credit Risk Management and Statistics and Analysis departments.

Mr. Jenkins joined the Supervision and Regulation Department in 1986 as a bank examiner. He was appointed assistant vice president in 1996, vice president in 1999, and to his current position in 2007.

A native of Cleveland, Mr. Jenkins holds a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a degree from the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Colorado. He is past president of the Northern Ohio Chapter of the Risk Management Association, a trade organization that promotes sound credit-risk-management practices, and he serves on the board of trustees of Towards Employment, a nonprofit organization providing job readiness and placement services.

John M. Lane, Acting Regional Director, New York FDIC, has over 32 years of experience in bank supervision and has been the Acting Regional Director since December 2008 with responsibility for the Risk Management and Compliance activities in the New York Region. Mr. Lane has also provided executive oversight for a variety of activities in the Washington Office including large banks, applications, problem banks and enforcement actions against individuals. Mr. Lane and his wife Deborah have been married over 31 years and they have two daughters.

William Stone, Jr., First Vice President and COO, joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in 1971 and was promoted to senior vice president in charge of payment operations in 1984. In this position he was responsible for all Third District cash, check, and electronic payment activities. In 1987, Stone was appointed first vice president and chief operating officer of the Bank. He is a frequent spokesperson on national and regional economic matters and has consulted with foreign central banks and the World Bank.

Lori J. Quigley, Managing Director, Supervision, was appointed to her position in April 2004. Her current responsibilities include overseeing safety and soundness examinations and problem institutions, trust activities, information technology risk, examination programs and guidance, and quality assurance. She has worked in thrift supervision for 20 years both with OTS and its predecessor, the Federal Home Loan Bank.

Ms. Quigley began her career as a community banker in New York in the mid 1980s. She started her career as a commercial lending and operations officer. In 1988, she left the banking industry and began her long career in public service when she joined the staff of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. With the passage of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, she was transferred to the OTS.

Lori was an accredited OTS safety and soundness examiner in the Northeast region for 11 years. In conjunction with her examination responsibilities, she had regional oversight for 25 high profile institutions. In 2000, she moved to OTS headquarters in Washington, D.C., as Special Advisor to the Deputy Director of Examinations, Supervision, and Consumer Protection. In that role, Lori worked directly with executives and senior management in formulating Agency policy.

Lori graduated from St. John’s University, New York, with a B.S. in Finance. She earned her MBA at Dowling College, New York.