Wesley W. Sturges

Bank of Granite Corp. operates as a bank holding company. The company provides financial solutions to individual and institutional clients. These solutions include individual, group and short-term insurance, personal financial services such as estate planning, trusts, wills, personal loans, health management, savings and linked products, business fitness assessment and insurance investment management, asset management, property asset management, stock broking, employee benefits, risk management and capital market activities. The company's banking activities include the taking of demand and time deposits and the making of loans, secured and unsecured, to individuals, associations, partnerships and corporations. The firm's portfolio segments include commercial and industrial; real estate construction; real estate commercial mortgage and consumer. Bank of Granite was founded on June 1, 1987 and is headquartered in Granite Falls, NC.

Bank of Commerce (Charlotte, North Carolina) provides commercial banking services in the Charlotte region of North Carolina. The bank provides online services, business banking services and personal banking services. It mainly deals in loans and investment securities. Bank of Commerce was founded on January 24, 2006 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.