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J. Downey Bridgwater

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Bridgwater has more than 43 years of banking experience at various banks in the Houston market ranging in asset size from $ million to $ billion.

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Throughout his banking career he has been responsible for numerous domains within the banks he has been affiliated with such as operations, credit analysis, credit administration, special assets, loan review and lending. He has had substantial interaction with regulatory agencies including the FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve, the Texas Department of Banking, SEC, and the US Treasury Department.

He is adept at managing bank liquidity, funding, and capital as well as identifying, assessing, managing, and mitigating key risks including credit, operational, market/interest rate and reputation risk.

He participated in or led 18 acquisitions, mergers or dispositions including related conversions, divestitures and the integration of whole entities, specific assets, and asset pools.

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