Signature Sponsors
Signature Sponsors
Signature Sponsor Packages are a unique offering for companies who are interested in providing higher levels of sponsorship support at educational events. Signature Sponsors have the opportunity to build their own individual bundled package by determining the sponsorships and/or advertisement options that align best with their strategic plan for the year. Simply find the event sponsorships that you would like to secure and add those sponsor dollars up to get you to the package level that most suits your plans for the year – then enjoy the many benefits that come with being a Signature Sponsorship! AND your membership dues are also part of what can be rolled up into these packages! Our 2026 Sponsor Brochure is now available! Check out the vast number of engagement opportunities!
Contact Amy Binns with additional questions or help with developing your 2026 engagement plan!
Thank you to our 2026 Signature Sponsors listed below!
ABM
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
ABM AI is a cutting-edge IT firm specializing in Microsoft Modern Work and Artificial Intelligence. Their mission is to empower organizations by leveraging the latest advancements in digital workplace solutions, AI-driven insights, and automation to enhance productivity, security, and operational efficiency. ABM AI is employee-owned, ensuring exceptional service and a vested interest in the company’s success. They focus on cloud, security, and data governance to prepare customers for the Era of AI responsibly and ethically. For more information, visit their website.
Brown, Edwards & Company, L.L.P.
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
Brown Edwards’ financial institution professional services help management improve procedures, manage risk exposure, and enhance earnings. As a top 100 firm with over 40 years of banking experience, their team will design a specific program for your organization’s needs while providing best practices and cost-effective outsourced services. They provide a full range of services including internal audits, compliance and regulatory audits, SOX/FDICIA assessments, information technology audits, loan reviews, financial statement audits, and model validations. For more information, visit their website or contact Alan Landes.
Chartwell Partners
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Chartwell Partners is a retained executive search and leadership advisory firm serving the financial services industry. They partner with banks and financial institutions to place senior executives and board leaders who drive sustainable performance, guided by core values of commitment, transparency, and respect that foster trusted, long-term partnerships. For more information, visit their website or contact Scott Petty.
College Ave Student Loans
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
College Ave Student Loans is a private student loan provider that offers undergraduate, graduate, and parent loans, as well as refinance options. They offer multiple loan options with flexible repayment terms, including competitive interest rates, and features like instant credit decision, a simple, 3-minute application process, no application or origination fee, autopay discount, and best-in-class customer service. In addition to, College Ave offers a fantastic referral program. By partnering with College Ave, your bank can earn non-interest income through referral fees paid by College Ave while helping customers address their higher education funding needs. As a true referral program, banks avoid all loan administration, while College Ave handles all origination, disbursement, and servicing. Lastly, this referral program helps to ensure that your customers continue banking with you by reducing the risk of them turning to big bank competitors for their private student loan needs. For more information, visit their website or contact Brian Reed.
Community Bankers’ Bank
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Community Bankers’ Bank is a State-Chartered Fed Member bankers’ bank owned and directed by independent community banks in the Fifth Federal Reserve District and contiguous states. It gives community banks unique and outstanding value through the economies of scale it creates as a bank partner, never a competitor. It provides the products and services that banks need to operate and excel. CBB’s competitive pricing and superior service make it a vital resource for community banks. Visit their website or LinkedIn page to learn more or contact Jay McNamara.
Crowe
Silver Level VBA Signature Sponsor
Crowe LLP is a public accounting, consulting, and technology firm that combines deep industry and specialized expertise with innovation. By listening to their clients, they learn about their businesses and the challenges they face. Their dedicated teams strive to deliver exceptional client service while upholding their core values and strong professional standards. They invest in tomorrow because they know smart decisions build lasting value for their clients, people, and profession. Crowe LLP’s services include Audit, Tax, Advisory, Risk and Performance Consulting. For more information, visit their website or contact Jason Stockton.
CRS Data
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
For over 30 years, CRS Data has been dedicated to delivering powerful, accurate property data backed by superior customer service. Their Financial Suite product is tailored made for financial institutions. Offering public tax records, sales and mortgage histories, property comparables, warranty deeds, interactive GIS plat maps, area demographics. CRS helps banks manage their commercial loan portfolio and generate non-interest income. They offer the power of clear and current property information to help you make sound decisions. For more information, visit their website or contact Alwyn Staley.
Elliott Davis
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Financial Services Member
Elliott Davis is a business solutions firm providing services to over 500 financial institutions across the United States, including 350 regional and community banks and credit unions. Their team of over 100 professionals dedicated to the financial services industry serves banks and credit unions with audit, tax, advisory, and consulting services. These consulting and advisory services include internal audit, compliance reviews and monitoring, BSA/AML, information technology/cyber security, SOX/FDICIA assistance, credit services, data analytics, model validations, due diligence, process improvement assessments and plans, organizational consulting, and SOC reporting, among others. For more information, visit their website or contact Josh White.
FHLBank Atlanta
Platinum Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Financial Services Member
FHLBank Atlanta offers competitively-priced financing, community development grants, and other banking services to help member financial institutions make affordable home mortgages and provide economic development credit to neighborhoods and communities. The Bank’s members are located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. For more information, visit their website or contact Dan Brenton or Sam Mahler.
Fiserv
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV) is a Fortune 500 global financial technology and payments company dedicated to moving money and information in ways that connect people, businesses, and communities. As a leader in payments and financial services technology, Fiserv delivers innovative solutions across account processing and digital banking, card issuer processing and network services, payments, merchant acquiring, e-commerce, and the Clover® cloud-based point-of-sale and business management platform. Fiserv is a member of the S&P 500® Index and is consistently recognized as one of Fortune® World’s Most Admired Companies™. For more information, visit their website or contact Lynne Newton.
Hartman Executives Advisors
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Hartman Executive Advisors provides embedded fractional IT and cyber leadership for community banks. As technology drives every initiative, our model delivers strategic leadership, stability, and clarity at a fraction of full-time cost. The breadth of their team outperforms a single hire, aligning IT with business goals and creating competitive advantage. For more information, visit their website or contact Shea Gabrielleschi.
IntraFi
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
Chosen by over 3,000 financial institutions, IntraFi has provided deposit placement and wholesale funding services for more than 20 years. IntraFi’s network—the largest of its kind—brings scale, giving each participant access to tens of billions of dollars in funding, the highest per-depositor and per-bank capacity, and the peace of mind of being able to make large-dollar placements. The company invented reciprocal deposits and its tested, trusted solutions are utilized by financial institutions of all sizes. IntraFi helps its network participants grow strong, loyal customer relationships, fund more loans, earn fee income, and seamlessly manage liquidity through all market conditions. For more information, visit their website or contact Patrick Kealey.
Investors Title Insurance Company
Platinum Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Investors Title specializes in residential and commercial title insurance, §1031 exchanges, settlement, escrow, and trust account reconciliation services, and wealth management. Publicly traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (ticker symbol “ITIC”), Investors Title has partnered with 500+ banks to establish lender owned title insurance agencies. With a focus on compliance, operational efficiency, and superior service as the staples of success, these agencies generate significant non-interest fee income for owners. For more information, visit their website or contact Norma Carroll.
KeyState
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
Founded in 1991, KeyState specializes in providing community banks with innovative investment structures that enhance a community bank’s annual earnings. KeyState Renewables has raised and deployed $225 million in SOLCAP solar tax funds since 2020, financing 53 projects in 7 states. In May 2023, the VBA and KeyState jointly launched the VBA|SOLCAP 2024 LMI Solar Tax Credit Fund, which will raise up to $150 million in solar tax equity capital from its member banks. The capital will be deployed by KeyState in collaboration with a Virginia-based solar development partner to build 15-20 community solar projects throughout Virginia in 2024. These projects will exclusively benefit low-to-moderate income (LMI) households in Virginia, reducing their annual electric bills by approximately 20-30%. For more information, visit their website or contact Josh Miller.
Olsen Palmer
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Olsen Palmer is an independent investment banking firm that exclusively advises financial institutions across the full spectrum of Mergers & Acquisitions. For more information, visit their website or contact Christopher Olsen.
PCBB
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
PCBB believes in the power of local financial institutions to be the catalyst of small business growth and to enable communities to thrive. Their team is committed to providing not only the tools and knowledge our customers need to serve their clients, but also the partnership and trust they deserve. Their robust suite of competitive services includes cash management and international services, lending solutions, and profitability and risk management advisory services. These solutions help community financial institutions maximize revenue, increase efficiency, and manage risk. To learn more, visit their website or contact Dennis Falk or Jo Ellen McKinley.
Piper Sandler
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR) is a leading investment bank driven to help clients Realize the Power of Partnership®. In the financial services space, Piper Sandler Companies (formerly Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P.) is a full-service investment banking firm dedicated to providing comprehensive, innovative advisory and transaction execution services. The firm specializes in strategic business planning, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, mutual to stock conversions, investment portfolio and interest rate risk management, fixed income securities transactions, and mortgage finance restructurings. Piper Sandler Companies is also a market maker in hundreds of financial stocks and publishes equity research focused on selected banks and thrifts, insurance companies, investment banks, asset managers, specialty finance companies, e-finance companies, real estate investment trusts, and financial technology companies. For more information, visit their website or contact Avi Barak.
Profit Resources, Inc (PRI)
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
Profit Resources, Inc. (PRI) enhances interchange income and debit card profitability, evaluates, and negotiates core system contracts, and completes process improvement throughout every area of the bank. PRI strengthens banks by making quantifiable improvements to profitability and efficiency. From revenue enhancement to expense reduction, PRI directly impacts profits. For more information, visit their website or contact Brady Chianciola.
PWCampbell
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
PWCampbell, widely known and respected in the financial services industry, is a fourth generation, family-owned retail services and design/build firm. Founded over 100 years ago, they offer a full range of quality facility planning, demographic research, creative retail branding, digital signage, interior design, furniture coordination, architectural and construction services. PWCampbell’s turnkey management process provides the expertise to develop and implement engaging and impactful solutions for every sized project, on time and within budget. For more information, visit their website or contact Marshall Jett.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, they know that not all information is important—some of it’s vital. They integrate financial and industry data, research and news into analytical tools that help banks track performance, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation, assess credit risk and prospect for new customer relationships. For more information, visit their website or contact Ryan Chakalos or Maureen McKenna.