President/CEO Conference

Sponsored by GBA's Community Bankers Committee and Board of Directors, the annual President/Chief Executive Officer Conference is designed to address current and future issues essential to bank management including economic forecasts, strategic planning, technological developments, profitability management, and peer-to-peer discussions.

At the 2005 conference,  Elaine Demarest of Demarest Strategy Group made an interesting and informative presentation entitled:  REALITY CHECK – Fresh Statistics on the State of Community Banking in Georgia.  Among the topics covered were planning challenges for directors and executive management, an update on the current interest rate environment, Georgia real estate lending trends, merger and acquisition activity, stock prices, trends in deposit gathering, capital planning and others. Click here to view the presentation.