Meet the Speakers

Curtis Carpenter
Managing Director
Sheshunoff & Company Investment Banking

Curtis serves as Managing Director of Sheshunoff & Co. Investment Banking and Principal of Affiliated Bankers Capital. With more than 27 years in the financial services industry, Curtis Carpenter has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and financial management in the financial services sector.
 
Curtis has been involved in over seventy successful merger transactions from the multiple perspectives of buyer, seller and broker. Prior to joining Sheshunoff & Co. Investment Banking, Curtis helped direct mergers and acquisitions with a large regional bank holding company in their expansion into major growth markets across the Southwest. His additional experience includes strategic planning, financial forecasting, troubled debt restructuring, serving as CFO of another financial institution, and three years with KPMG in Dallas.

Curtis is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout the country of both state and national organizations and has been a featured industry specialist for one of the world’s largest international accounting firms. He has been quoted as an industry expert in over 100 newspapers and other publications throughout the country including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and CNBC.

Curtis is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Texas, holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Abilene Christian University, and is a graduate of the Management Training Program of one of the nation’s largest banks.

J. Lamar Roberts
President & CEO
First National Bank of Pasco

J. Lamar Roberts has been president of five Florida banks over the last 37 years. Since 2010 he has been president of First National Bank of Central Florida in Winter Park, Florida. He has been very active in the banking industry, serving as a director and lecturer at the Florida School of Banking, and a guest lecturer at the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin. He has served as chairman of the Florida Bankers Association and director, as well as member of the Executive Committee of the Independent Community Bankers of America. Lamar has also served as director and Chairman of the Board of the Independent Bankers’ Bank of Florida, as well as director and chairman of the Florida Bankers Insurance Trust.

Alan Smith
Senior Bank Strategist
Bank Intelligence Solutions, Fiserv

Alan Smith has more than 20 years of banking experience, including eight years as Director, President and Chief Operating Officer of a $500 million bank and Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of its holding company. As a Senior Bank Strategist for Bank Intelligence Solutions at Fiserv, Alan works in an advisory role to BancAnalyst® client banks helping them make the best use of the online advisory tools for strategic and tactical planning to drive bank performance and maximize franchise value.

Prior to joining Fiserv, Alan was the President and Chief Operating officer at The Bank/First Citizens Bank where he was responsible for identifying and executing business priorities which maximized the bank’s value. Alan also held the positions of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of First Citizens Bancorp, Senior Vice President and Corporate Banker of Wachovia Corporation, and Director positions at The Home Bank of Tennessee and Infinity Mortgage Company. Alan was also Chairman and a member of the Local Advisory Board for Branch Bank and Trust.

During his career, Alan has negotiated and executed strategic mergers and led company reorganizations from C to S corporations. His experience also includes the evaluation and oversight of new product rollouts including telephone banking, cash management, internet banking, insurance services, investment services, call center services, and a variety of other retail and commercial product and services.

Alan graduated from the Centre College with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Management/Government. He also received a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Vanderbilt University.

Sean Snaith, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Economic Competitiveness
University of Central Florida

Sean Snaith is a widely recognized economist in the field of business and economic forecasting. As an award-winning forecaster, researcher, and professor, Sean is always interested in the application of academic expertise to the solution of real world problems. He has served as a consultant for a client list ranging from local and regional municipalities to multi-national corporations, including Compaq, Dell and IBM. Sean has held teaching positions at Pennsylvania State University, American University in Cairo, University of North Dakota and University of the Pacific.

He frequently appears in national and regional media and is sought after as a speaker. Renowned for his engaging presentations, one business editor wrote, “Snaith (has) an uncanny knack of making economics not only understandable but interesting.”

Sean is a member of several economic organizations and national forecasting panels including USA Today’s Survey of Top Economists, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Survey of Professional Forecasters and the Livingston Survey. He holds a B.S. in Economics from Allegheny College and an M.A and Ph.D. in Economics from Pennsylvania State University.

Lee Wetherington, AAP
Director of Strategic Insight, ProfitStars
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.

Lee Wetherington, AAP, is Director of Strategic Insight for ProfitStars®, a division of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. ®, and provider of best-of-breed solutions that improve the performance of financial institutions of all sizes and charters, and diverse corporate entities. Lee directs the development of actionable insight and strategy for the financial services industry. To this end, he creates programs, presentations, and articles designed to orient and educate financial professionals on the trends and implications of new technologies. He routinely delivers keynotes nationwide focusing upon opportunities and challenges in e-banking and payments, and he is widely renowned for his unique style of comedic delivery.

Lee has spoken for numerous state and national trade groups, including the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), Bank Administration Institute (BAI), American Bankers Association (ABA), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), and the National Automated Clearinghouse Association (NACHA). He also serves as the Technology Faculty Chair for several regional schools of banking and finance.

Lee received bachelor degrees in Economics and English from Duke University in 1990, and, in 1993, he completed graduate studies at Emory University. In 1995, he earned the distinguished Accredited ACH Professional (AAP) certification from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA).

J. Michael Woody, Sr.
Owner and Principal
J. Michael Woody, Inc.

Mike Woody's past experience includes, among other positions, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Warren County Bank in McMinnville, Tennessee, First Tennessee Bank, N.A., in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Oklahoma National Bank, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Commerce Bank, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

He holds numerous teaching positions and has earned a Distinguished Faculty Award at the University of Mississippi School of Banking and has over twenty years tenure at the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado. He is currently a faculty member at the Florida School of Banking.

He has held training sessions for the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Federal Reserve Bank, state regulators in Iowa, Oklahoma and Nebraska, and the O.C.C.  He makes over 80 presentations each year to over 45 banking associations and overseas for the U.S. Treasury and A.I.D. in Russia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. He has also led commercial lending training for WestPac Banking Corporation in Australia and the New York Finance Institute in Singapore.

He earned his B.S. Industrial Engineering, from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and his M.B.A. Finance from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business, at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville.

2010 Registration Fees Per Person:

FBA Member

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$1,700.00

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$750.00