President/CEO Roundtables
2012 Roundtable Schedule
Strengthen Your Bank through
Shared Ideas and Interaction with Peers
Running a bank has never been
more challenging. As executive leadership, you shoulder
responsibility for ever broadening and increasingly complex
issues. Relevant and timely industry data, proven
experiences and smart ideas can be a powerful advantage. No
one knows your business and your job like another banker. In
an age of information saturation, executives have limited
time to filter down to what’s valuable and useful. While
bankers can turn to any number of sources for problem
solving, the enlightened executives turn to one another. You
don't have to test every idea for yourself or rely solely on
internal resources and your own experiences to come up with
creative solutions to tough problems. That's the purpose of
the President / CEO Roundtables.
Roundtable Structure
Each President / CEO Roundtable
group will include up to 16 executive participants from a
broad mix of bank sizes and diverse geography throughout the
state without competitive overlaps. Groups of this size are
large enough to offer diversity of opinion and experience,
yet small enough to allow detailed brainstorming discussions
among the participants. Each Roundtable group will meet
three times during the year in a centrally convenient
Georgia location. The members will select meeting dates and
agenda topics. The facilitator is responsible for
coordinating meeting details, providing resources and
handout materials, guiding the group discussion, and
delivering post-session follow-up items. GBA will assist the
facilitator in organizing the groups but will not be
represented at the meetings.
Your Facilitators for the
Roundtable Sessions
Elaine Demarest & Chrys
Henderson
Demarest Strategy Group, Inc.
We are especially pleased that
the Roundtables are being facilitated by Elaine H. Demarest
and Chrys Henderson of Demarest Strategy Group, Inc. based
in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Elaine, a Georgia Certified Public Accountant, is principal
and owner of a consulting and accounting firm, Demarest
Strategy Group, Inc. Her practice, which she formed in 1984,
is devoted exclusively to management advisory services for
banks and bank holding companies in the Southeast, with a
clientele of over 150 financial companies ranging in size
from de novo start-ups to $3 billion in assets. The firm’s
specialties include all aspects of strategic planning,
financial advisory services on mergers, branching and
expansion decisions, capital planning, risk assessment,
improving regulatory standing, evolving organizational
infrastructure, staff talent development, financial support
functions for banks & holding companies, budgeting, profit
improvement, funds management and operations support,
product development, performance-based incentive systems,
and preparation of federal and state regulatory
applications. In its history spanning almost three decades,
the firm has gained a reputation of aiding community bankers
to analyze opportunities logically, to use solid strategic
business judgment, to build and enhance shareholder value,
and to seek practical solutions that work.
Elaine is a member of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants and the Georgia Society of Certified
Public Accountants. She holds a BBA degree in accounting and
a BS degree in mathematics from Mercer University. The firm
is an Associate Member of and frequent speaker for the
Georgia Bankers Association, where Elaine has served on the
GBA Board of Directors and the Community Bankers Committee.
The firm is now facilitator for the GBA President / CEO and
Finance / Operations Officer Roundtable peer groups across
the state. Prior to forming her practice, Elaine served the
industry for ten years in CFO and operations capacities for
a large multi-bank holding company in Macon, Georgia.
Chrys Henderson has 30 years of practical experience in the
banking industry in Georgia. Her industry background at a
mid-sized metro community bank encompassed all levels of
audit, accounting, in-house data processing, operations,
investment portfolio management, financial planning and
asset / liability management. For the past 16 years, Chrys
has teamed with the Demarest firm to provide consulting
services to Georgia community banks of varying asset sizes.
Her projects with the firm include personnel utilization
studies, work flow analyses and systems design, budgeting,
asset / liability reporting packages and administration,
profit enhancement, CFO training and support functions, data
processing vendor selection, analysis and implementation,
product evaluation and development, and assisting banks in
setting their strategic direction. She has managed and
implemented conversions of all types, from simple data
conversion to complete data, operational, and financial
systems for a start-up bank. One of her passions is finding
and helping to develop a bank’s shining stars to accept new
challenges and grow to fit evolving company needs.
Sample Discussion Topics
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Current Events /
Industry Trends
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Earnings / Profit
Improvement Ideas
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Regulatory and
Compliance Issues
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Interest Rate Risk
Management
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Liquidity Management &
Investments
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Capital Planning and
Shareholder Relations Issues
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Lending & Credit
Administration Issues
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Technology Issues &
Innovations
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Talent Development &
Organizational Structure
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Marketing and Expansion
Strategies
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Product
Development/Competitive Assessment
Location: Meetings are
held at the Idle Hour Country Club in Macon, Georgia as a
central location for the state.
Meeting Schedule
9:00 a.m. Coffee, Light
Breakfast and Networking
9:30 a.m. Roundtable
Convenes
Noon
Working Lunch
3:00 p.m. Adjourn
Registration
The annual participation fee is
$1,200 for groups that hold three meetings per year. The fee
includes on-site facilitation, meeting materials, meals,
year-round e-mail Q&A support with your peers, and
customized follow-up from the facilitators.
If you would like to be part of a Roundtable, please
complete the
online President / CEO Roundtable
application and we will get back with you to
discuss the details. For more information, please call
Susie McGehee
at 404.420.2010.
Or you may fill out the, print
and return it via mail or fax to:
Susie McGehee
Georgia Bankers Association
50 Hurt Plaza, Suite 1050
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone 404.420.2010
Fax 404.522.9848
