Ms. Flanders has been a member of our board of directors since April 2009 and was our chief financial officer during the calendar year of 2015. Since October 2013, she has served as a senior advisor for Verit Advisors LLC, an independent investment bank advisory firm that specializes in ESOPs and other ownership transitions. In 2009, she founded Skipjack Partners LLC, a women-owned consultancy doing business as Manage Fearlessly, an internet resource for managers and entrepreneurs.
From 1975 through 2009, Ms. Flanders held a series of positions of increasing responsibility with Bank of America and its predecessor organizations. Ultimately, she served as the global commercial banking executive for the bank’s Mid-Atlantic region overseeing eight commercial banking markets and more than 80 client teams delivering a full array of financial services to over 6,000 small, middle market and micro cap clients in the Mid-Atlantic region.