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Earl L. Frye serves as Chairman Emeritus for Bank of Florida Corporation having retired in April of 2007. Mr. Frye is a realtor developer and former banker who moved to Naples in 1962. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Downing & Frye. Mr. Frye is a past President of the Naples Area Board of Realtors and Director of the Florida Association of Realtors as well as past President of the Collier County Society of Real Estate Appraisers. His banking career began in 1968 when he served as a Director of First National Bank and Trust Company of Collier County which later merged with Southwest Florida Banks of Fort Myers. Southwest Florida Banks later merged with Sovran of Norfolk Virginia which became C&S Sovran. C&S Sovran then merged with NCNB of Charlotte. Mr. Frye served on all of the above parent boards and state boards and he was also Chairman of First National Bank of Collier County. After the merger of C&S Sovran and NCNB which became NationsBank Mr. Frye served on the Florida/Georgia Board of Directors and chaired the Trust Committee. He has also served as Trustee for Naples Community Hospital. | 