Bill Abernathy

Bill Abernathy has had a long and varied career as a bank regulator, bank consultant and banker. He served in six different Senior Management positions with the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), including leading a staff of examiners in the supervision of the 15 largest banks, problem banks and compliance in the Southeastern District (9 southern states); and the supervision of community banks in Georgia and the Carolinas. After retirement from OCC, Bill formed and managed a bank consulting firm. He then turned from consulting to full-time banker and has since worked for four Georgia banks, serving the last three banks (Flag, Brand and currently State Bank & Trust) as Chief Risk Management Officer. Mr. Abernathy is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a B.S. in Banking and Finance, and the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University. He and his wife Shirley have one daughter and have lived in the Atlanta area since the early 1980s.