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Mr. Lanier is President and owner of Lanier Appraisals, Inc., a real estate appraisal firm, and Secretary-Treasurer and a partner in Lanier-Brookins, Inc., a forestry consulting firm. In 1990, Mr. Lanier helped to form Eagle Bank and Trust and its parent Eagle Bancorp, Inc. in Statesboro, Georgia, where he served both entities as a director from 1990, as Chairman of the Board of Eagle Bancorp, Inc. from 1997 to 1998, when it was acquired by the Company, and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Eagle Bank and Trust from 1997 until it was merged into the Bank in January 2002. He has served as a director of the Bank since 2001. Mr. Lanier has served as a member of the Company's Audit Committee since April 2002 and as a member of the Company’s Governance Committee since February 2005.
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