Steven Jay Lerner

VantageSouth Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company, which engages in the management and operation of banks. It offers checking and savings account, lending, business and consumer credit cards, and mortgage lending for businesses and individual customers through VantageSouth Bank. The company was founded on April 27, 2001 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Piedmont Community Bank Holdings, Inc. operates as a bank holding company. It was established to build a strong community banking franchise across the Carolinas and Virginia. It offers personal and commercial banking services through its subsidiaries. Piedmont also controls VantageSouth Bank, a community bank based in Burlington, NC. The company was founded in 2009 by Adam Abram and Scott Custer and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Yadkin Bank provides banking services. It provides banking, mortgage, investment and insurance services. The firm operates through five divisions: American Community, Cardinal State, High County, Piedmont and Yadkin Valley Bank. The company was founded on September 16, 1968 and is headquartered in Elkin, NC.

Presidio, Inc. engages in the provision of information technology solutions. Its services include strategy and consulting, solutions design and deployment, lifecycle and customer success, asset maintenance and support, carrier connectivity, and financing. The company was founded by Joel Arthur Schleicher in 2004 and is headquartered in New York. NY.

Yankelovich, Inc. provides market research, analysis, and consulting services. The company offers database and segmentation solutions information-based insights into consumer motivations and lifestyles, identify specific, tangible opportunities by moving clients from simplistic targeting to productivity solutions. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC.

Yadkin Financial Corp. operates as a bank holding company. It run business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Yadkin Valley Bank and Trust Co., provides consumer and commercial banking services to individuals and small and medium-sized businesses in various branches in North Carolina and South Carolina. The company primary business is providing banking, mortgage, investment & insurance services to businesses and consumers across the Carolinas. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Crescent State Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crescent Financial Bancshares. The bank operates 15 full-service banking offices in the communities of Cary (2), Apex, Clayton, Garner, Holly Springs, Sanford, Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Raleigh (3), Knightdale and Wilmington (2), North Carolina. Founded and headquartered in Cary, NC, they pride themselves on being able to provide fast, local decision-making and quality customer service to each of their customers. Their bankers are hand-picked members of the community with strong banking backgrounds. Through one's expertise they are able to help their customers make sound financial decisions.

Capstrat LLC offers marketing and public relations services to corporations and non-profit organizations. It provides interactive communications, marketing communications, public relations, and government affairs services. The firm serves the technology, health-care, and financial services industries. The company was founded by Kenneth L. Eudy Jr. and Steve Meehan in 1994 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.