VBA Signature Sponsors
VBA Signature Sponsors
VBA Signature Sponsor Packages are a unique offering for companies who are interested in providing higher levels of sponsorship support at VBA 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 2023 Sponsor Brochure is now available! Check out the vast number of engagement opportunities!
Contact Amy Binns with additional questions or help with developing your 2023 engagement plan!
Thank you to our current Signature Sponsors listed below!
Bankers Insurance
Platinum Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
At Bankers Insurance, our banking roots run deep. Founded in 1999, we are steadfast supporters of Virginia’s independent community banks, their clients, employees, and the communities they serve. We thank our owner banks for their unending support and partnership. To all others, we welcome the opportunity to discuss your bank insurance coverage program and how we can offer targeted insurance solutions for your clients, all while providing non-interest income to your bank’s bottom line. Please visit Insurance for Banks or contact Zak Kephart by email or phone at 540-904-7552.
Brown, Edwards & Company, L.L.P.
Silver 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.
College Ave Student Loans
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
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.
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.
Dudley Resources
Platinum Level Signature Sponsor
Dudley Resources provides flexible remarketing solutions, empowering our clients with the ability to put the focus back on banking. Our firm offers over 40 years of experience supporting regional banks and institutional sellers with asset management services and programs which enable our clients to achieve maximum values across an array of asset classes. Their services include Senior Accredited (ASA) approved appraisals, online and simulcast auctions for real estate, machinery & equipment, business assets, and automobiles. They offer proprietary surge pricing platforms, trustee & repo services, foreclosure sales, note sales, and buyout options. They are equipped with industry leading technology, knowledge, and experience to provide the best customer service in the business. Dudley Resources….a resource to banks offering dependable and reliable results for all your asset remarketing needs. For more information, visit their website or contact Tim Dudley or Chip Jones.
Elliott Davis
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Financial Services Member
Elliott Davis is a business solutions firm providing services to over 200 regional and community banks across the United States. Their team of more than 90 professionals dedicated to the banking industry serves both public and private banks with audit, tax, advisory, and consulting services. Those consulting and advisory services, including internal audit, compliance reviews, BSA/AML, information technology/cyber security, SOX/FDICIA assistance, loan reviews and credit services, model validations, due diligence, process improvement assessments and plans, organizational consulting, compensation plan consulting and SOC reporting, among others. For more information, visit their website or contact Josh White.
[Equifax] RA Business Solutions, an Equifax Sales Agent
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
RA Business Solutions (RABS) is the exclusive Equifax Sales Agent for the Mid-Atlantic region. Their client portfolio includes auto dealers, banks, credit unions, finance companies, and real estate companies. The RABS team, working with Equifax, provides these industries leading edge consumer insights and analytics, as well as complete consumer and commercial credit files. For more information, visit their website or contact Amy Cardona.
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.
Global Payments
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
Global Payments is one of the nation’s leading providers of payment processing services. Committed to providing state-of-the-art payment technology and data security, Global Payments offers innovative solutions to satisfy the needs and demands of your business clients. With an infrastructure designed to support financial institutions of all sizes, Global Payments offers specialized tools and services to help you maximize merchant acquisition and retention. Their dedicated business development support team and customized sales programs will help drive your institution’s non-interest income growth. For more information, visit their website or contact Joanne Tyrrell.
Investors Title Insurance Company
Gold 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.
Motleys Asset Disposition Group
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
At Motleys Asset Disposition Group, they create liquidity. Through modern internet bidding technologies, a vast catalog of established customers, and an exhaustive list of valued partnerships, they specialize in creating competitive bidding. With specialized divisions that are staffed with industry specialists, they are the company that provides solutions for all your buying or selling needs. To speak to a specialist or for more information, visit their website to view their upcoming sales or contact Mark Motley.
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.
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
Profit Resources, Inc (PRI) enhances interchange income and debit card profitability, evaluates and negotiates system contracts, and completes process improvement throughout every area of the bank. PRI strengthens banks by making quantifiable improvements to profitability and efficiency while also specializing in merger integration. Helping good banks get better since 1990. 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.
Troutman Pepper
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
At Troutman Pepper, their higher commitment to client care is a promise that every interaction with their attorneys and staff will exceed expectations. Drawing on teamwork, technology, and innovation, they bring their combined experience to bear in diverse sectors and critical practices nationwide. A top 50 firm with more than 1,200 attorneys in 23 U.S. cities, they combine the resources of a large firm with the personal engagement of a trusted adviser. Their Financial Services Practice includes more than 200 attorneys who regularly advise financial services providers, including banks, neobanks, payment processors, card issuers and consumer and commercial marketplace lenders. With their substantial resources, extensive experience and use of teamwork, technology and innovation, Troutman Pepper advises financial services clients with respect to the full spectrum of their legal needs. For more information, visit their website or contact Seth Winter.
VCDC
Silver Level VBA Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
As the only Virginia-based tax credit equity fund, VCDC has invested more than $702 million to help finance more than 10,503 affordable housing units in over 260 different communities in Virginia and its adjoining states. Their impact-making investments have had exceptional performance, with every managed tax credit fund exceeding the targeted rate of return. They are intimately familiar with the localities and strive for their funds to have a real, positive impact for both their investors and the residents of the communities in which they invest. They consider every investment from all angles so that they can be confident that their funds will do the most good for everyone involved. They are always planning for new fund offerings that involve LIHTCs, Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits, New Markets Tax Credits and even Proprietary Funds for those looking for a custom investment solution. For more information, visit their website or contact Bernard Rogers.
Vericast
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Endorsed Provider
Vericast, formerly Harland Clarke Holdings, is a leading marketing solutions company that helps businesses across many industry verticals connect with consumers through data, analytics, and a broad portfolio of digital and print solutions. They help businesses understand, engage, grow and retain customers. Every day, they influence the consumer purchasing and transaction behavior of more than 120 million households – impacting where people eat, shop, buy, save, and borrow. It’s crucial to maximize every engagement tool at your disposal to drive brand awareness and revenue. With a full suite of services designed to engage customers including, Check Solutions, Card Solutions, Contact Center Solutions, Customer & Employee Insight, Customer Change Management and Acquisition and Retention, Vericast solutions combine superior service and deep experience to build a program tailored to your goals and brand strategy. For more information, visit their website or contact Christine Ahlgren.
Virginia Housing
Silver Level Signature Sponsor
By investing in the power of home, Virginia Housing transforms
where and how millions of Virginians live and thrive,
strengthening communities and the economy. For 50 years, Virginia
Housing has partnered with the public and private sectors to help
Virginians attain quality, affordable housing. Virginia Housing
provides mortgages to first-time homebuyers, invests in
developments and innovations in affordable housing, and makes
homes for people with disabilities and older Virginians more
livable. For more information, visit their website or contact
Michael
Urban.
YHB
CPAs & Consultants
Gold Level Signature Sponsor
VBA Financial Services Member
When your Community Bank needs audit, tax or advisory services, you want an accounting firm that’s thoroughly familiar with the banking industry and can deliver everything you need efficiently, expertly and in a way that advances your success. You also want a firm that audits both public and private companies. In other words, you want to call on YHB. Their large Community Bank Team, which includes dozens of dedicated professionals, focuses exclusively on serving financial institutions of all sizes. In addition to more than 75 years of experience in serving banks throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region, they have an exceptionally deep knowledge of industry regulations and issues acquired through continuing professional education and active involvement in organizations like the VBA. For more information, visit their website.