Kessel Stelling - Synovus Financial Chairman

Mr. Kessel D. Stelling, Jr., is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Synovus Financial Corporationration Mr. Stelling is the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Synovus. He was Chairman since January 1, 2012 and Chief Executive Officer and President since October 2010, after serving as Acting Chief Executive Officer from June to October 2010 while Richard E. Anthony was on a medical leave of absence. Prior to that time and since February 2010, Mr. Stelling served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Synovus. From June 2008 until February 2010, Mr. Stelling served as the Regional Chief Executive Officer of Synovus Atlanta area market. Prior to that time, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of North Georgia, or BNG, a banking division of Synovus, having been appointed to that position in December 2006. Mr. Stelling founded Riverside Bancshares, Inc. and Riverside Bank in 1996 and served as its Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer until 2006 when Riverside Bancshares, Inc. merged with and into Synovus and Riverside Bank merged with and into BNG. Prior to that time, Mr. Stelling worked in various management capacities in banking in the Atlanta region, having begun his career in the industry in 1974. Mr. Stelling holds a bachelors degree from the University of Georgia and is a graduate of Louisiana State University School of Banking of the South. He serves on the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and on the board of Georgia Power, the largest subsidiary of Southern Company, a public company, and one of the nations largest generators of electricity. Mr. Stelling also serves as the treasurer and as a member of the executive committee of the Financial Services Roundtable and as a director of several civic and nonprofit organizations, including the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. since 2021.