William Knox Pou Jr.

Mr. Pou is the Chairman of the Board, Executive Vice President and Chairman of Compliance Committee of W.S. Badcock Corporation (dba Badcock Home Furniture & More) where he is responsible for the retail operations of over 373 stores in eight states throughout the southeastern United States. Mr. Pou has spent his entire adult life with this organization and has been involved in all aspects of its operations including the consumer credit division as well as personally owning and operating several stores between 1979 and 1998 as an independent dealer. Mr. Pou was a director of CenterState Bank, N.A., the Company’s subsidiary bank, where he has served on several board committees. He was also a founding director of the First National Bank of Polk County in 1992, one of the initial three banks which were merged together to form CenterState Bank Corporation. Mr. Pou serves on the Boards of Trustees of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida and Lakeland Regional Health. Mr. Pou is a graduate of Mercer University, Macon, Georgia.