W. Reid Sanders

Mr. Sanders is the co-founder and former executive vice president of Southeastern Asset Management and the former president of the Longleaf Partners Mutual Funds – 1975-2000. Mr. Sanders is a private investor and is the president of Sanders Investment Company and Sanders Properties. He is a director of MAA Apartment Communities, Two Harbors Investment Company, and Independent Bank. He serves on the investment committee board of Cypress Realty, the board of Pier 88 Investment Partners, and the advisory board of SSM Venture Partners. Mr. Sanders is the former chairman of Two Rivers Capital Management, and his former directorships include Pioneer Investment Management Group, Harbor Global Company LTD, PioGlobal Asset Management, and TBA Entertainment Corp.

Mr. Sanders is a trustee of Rhodes College, the Hugo Dixon Foundation and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, as well as serving as president of the Dixon Endowment. He currently serves as a trustee of The Hutchison School and the Tennessee Shakespeare Company. He is a former trustee of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia and past president of the Virginia Alumnae Association, and is a past trustee of the Campbell Clinic Foundation, the Children’s Museum, Youth Services/Bridges, and the Memphis Zoological Society. Mr. Sanders received his BA degree in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1971.