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F. Marcus Fariss has over 20 years of experience in investment banking and senior management roles in the financial services sector. Marcus is a Managing Director with Cary Street Partners and serves in the Greensboro, North Carolina office. Prior to joining Cary Street Partners, Marcus was a co-founder and Managing Director of Fariss Feldmann Huff & Co., (FFHC) a Southeast based investment bank and a co-founder and Managing Director of Gryphon Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity management company. Prior to founding FFHC in 1995, he was a member of the executive management group of Ruff Hewn Limited Partnership. In addition, he was a founder, President, CEO, and a Director of American Bank and Trust Co. (AB&T). Following the sale of AB&T to Southern National Corporation, Marcus became President and CEO of Southern National Savings Corporation, where he was involved in the Bank’s mergers and acquisitions. He is a former board member of the NC Bankers Association. Marcus is also an investor and board member of Great Harvest Franchising, Inc., based in Dillon, Montana. Marcus graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, cum laude, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar. Marcus received an M.B.A. from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in High Point, North Carolina with his wife and four children, two of whom are in college. | 