Connie Edwards has nearly two decades of in-depth experience in the legal and financial industries. Her career has included development and implementation of a risk-based compliance audit program, in addition to a wide range of legal and regulatory affairs experience in both private and corporate practice environments.

Prior to founding the Banc Compliance Group in 2003, Ms. Edwards served as Vice President and principal Compliance Officer for Franklin Financial Corporation, with direct responsibility for ensuring that the highly-successful community bank organization's policies and procedures complied with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations.

Ms. Edwards came to FFC from SunTrust Bank, with eight years of increasing responsibility in both in its Florida and Tennessee operations, ultimately having direct responsibility for both the legal and CRA-related aspects of branch banking for this multi-state bank holding company with assets of over 100 billion. In her five years as President and CEO of Banc Compliance Group, Inc. , Ms. Edwards has acquired extensive experience working with the Federal Reserve’s Atlanta and St. Louis District offices; the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision; and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Ms. Edwards holds the designation of Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager from the Institute of Certified Bankers of the American Bankers Association. She is a graduate of the ABA's National Compliance School, and holds a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Central Florida.

Paula Evans brings more than fifteen years of compliance experience to her position as Senior Vice President of BCG. She has been responsible for compliance and CRA matters at both the Union Planters Corporation and SunTrust Banks, in addition to serving for nearly nine years as SVP|BSA Officer for Wilson Bank & Trust (Lebanon, TN), a highly successful community bank.

Ms. Evans has had direct responsibility for a wide range of regulatory compliance, internal audit and loan review matters, including maintaining compliance with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, and the conduct and analysis of a variety of internal audits, reporting directly to the bank's audit committee and senior management.

She has also been responsible for implementing corrective actions for cited deficiencies, developing and delivering compliance training and communications programs, and has extensive experience working with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Ms. Evans also holds the designation of Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager from the Institute of Certified Bankers of the American Bankers Association. She holds a diploma from the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University as well as the Southeastern School of Banking.

Lisa Fleet has over twenty years of increasingly responsible experience in banking. She joined Banc Compliance Group following four years as the Commercial Construction Administrator for Fifth Third Bank, where she supervised the draw funding process for Fifth Third's commercial construction loans.

Ms. Fleet has also served in Loan Operations, Credit, Collections and Consumer Banking with Franklin National Bank and NationsBank. She has first-hand experience with a broad array of state and federal banking regulations, with responsibility for preparing compliance documentation and analysis for senior management as well as front-line management of a wide range of banking operations. Ms. Fleet brings a wealth of knowledge to BCG in the areas of lending compliance regulations and HMDA/CRA Data Integrity.