Rodney Bennett  Managing Director, Facilities and Infrastructure Rodney Bennett has over 30 years of experience in the banking industry, and joined the board of BETA-1 in 2001. Mr. Bennett has acted as a consultant to Georgia banks and private companies. He consults in the areas of problem loan resolution, remedial loan structure, credit counseling, policy revision and loan review. He often serves as a liaison between troubled banks and regulators. In January 1998, he founded and began serving as Chief Executive Officer of Satilla Community Bank in St. Marys, Georgia. Prior to that, he co-founded BMC Financial Services, Inc., a mortgage broker operation, in January 1992, and served as its President and General Manager until December 1997. Mr. Bennett was formerly a Division President of the First Georgia Savings Bank from 1987 to 1991, when he resigned to form Bennett Management Corporation. Mr. Bennett was the Chief Executive Officer of the First National Bank of Folkston from 1975 to 1986, at which point the bank was merged with and into Bank South. Following the merger, Mr. Bennett was an Executive Vice President and a Branch Manager for Bank South until 1987. Mr. Bennett was also a Cashier with the First National Bank of Alma. Rodney was elected in 2003 to serve as a director, and currently Chairman, of Sunset Financial Resources, Inc, a privately managed REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust), which he helped to take public on the New York Stock Exchange in five months. Rodney has been a financial consultant to small businesses and start-ups, including a technology transfer project with the University of Georgia. The project evolved into Georgia Sweet Carrots, Inc., a wholesale distributor of carrots and fresh produce in Alma, Georgia, where he was elected as director. He was a partner with Bennett-Miller, a real estate partnership in Brunswick, Georgia and is a graduate of the Georgia School of Banking, University of Georgia.