CertusBank, N.A. Announces Hiring of Shay Barkley

ATLANTA - March 28, 2013 - PRLog -- RELEASE DATE:  Thursday, March 28th, 2013

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Jenni Shover

Director of Marketing – Quadrant Financial, Inc. a subsidiary of CertusBank, N.A.

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CertusBank, N.A. Announces Hiring of Shay Barkley

ATLANTA, GA

CertusBank, N.A. announced today that it has hired Shay Barkley as Vice President-Business Development Officer working in the company’s Government Guaranteed Lending Group in Atlanta, GA.

"We are so pleased that a professional of Shay’s caliber has joined the CertusBank Government Guaranteed Lending team" said George Vredeveld Jr., Executive Vice President of CertusBank.  Vredeveld went on to state that "Shay’s years of SBA originations experience mean that she is poised to make an immediate impact in the market.  The strength of CertusBank coupled with Shay’s enthusiasm and initiative will certainly result in a formidable combination.”  

Shay Barkley

Shay has over 18 years of financial services experience, over 10 of which have been exclusively focused on SBA loan originations. John Handmaker, Executive Vice President of CertusBank, commented “our strategic growth strategy and product diversity is attracting some of the best talent in the industry.  We are pleased that with the addition of Shay, CertusBank will be able to increase our delivery of small business lending products in the Georgia market.”

Barkley will be responsible for business development throughout Georgia.  She maintains an office in Alpharetta at 12600 Deerfield Parkway, Suite 100 and can be reached directly at (678) 566-3660.

CertusBank is a full service, nationally chartered bank, resident across four states: SC, NC, GA, and FL. Headquartered in Greenville, SC, the bank has secondary corporate offices in Atlanta, GA and

Charlotte, NC.  With the acquisition of Quadrant Financial, Inc., CertusBank became the 22nd largest SBA 7a lender in the nation and the largest SBA lender headquartered in South Carolina.  CertusBank offers government guaranteed loans nationwide and is actively offering SBA 7a, SBA 504, USDA, and Conventional small business loans through a series of loan origination offices in many major U.S. markets.  

To learn more about CertusBank, visit us at www.certusbank.com and see how certain you can be about your financial services partner.

About CertusBank, N.A.

CertusBank, N.A., is a subsidiary of CertusHoldings, Inc. and has $1.8 billion in assets, 33 branch locations, 5 operations centers,

and offices in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The bank has acquired franchises of the former Community

South Bank & Trust, First Georgia Banking Company, Atlantic Southern Bank, and Hometown Community Bank. Visit us online at

www.certusbank.com

About CertusHoldings, Inc.

Additionally, CertusHoldings, Inc. purchased SAGE Southeastern Securities, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia based registered broker-dealer.