C. Eugene Kirby

SunTrust Banks, Inc. is a bank and financial holding company that engages in the provision of financial services. It offers deposit, credit, mortgage banking, trust and investment, asset management, securities brokerage, and capital market services. It operates through the following segments: Consumer, Wholesale, and Corporate Other. The Consumer segment consists of consumer banking, lending, wealth management, and mortgage banking services. The Wholesale segment relates to advisory, capital raising, and financial risk management; commercial and business banking, commercial real estate; as well as treasury and payment solutions. The Corporate Other segment covers management of the company's investment securities portfolio, long-term debt, end user derivative instruments, short-term liquidity and funding activities, balance sheet risk management, and most real estate assets. The company was founded in July 12, 1984 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

SunTrust Banks, Inc. provides commercial, industrial, investment and personal banking services. The company operates more than 1,700 bank branches across southeastern states, including Alabama, the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, DC. The bank's offers include retail, commercial banking & trust services, credit cards, mortgage banking, mutual funds, insurance, equipment leasing, asset management & securities underwriting and dealing. SunTrust Banks is hedquartered in Atlanta, GA.

NewAlliance Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company for primarily NewAlliance Bank, formerly known as New Haven Savings Bank. The company specializes in the acceptance of retail deposits from the public in the areas surrounding its 64 banking offices, and uses those funds, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, to originate residential mortgage loans, commercial and commercial real estate loans and consumer loans, primarily home equity loans and lines of credit. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

BankSouth operates as a federally chartered savings bank. The firm provides personal and business banking services. The company was founded on April 1, 1946 is headquartered in Greensboro, GA.