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Ronald S. Riggins (Ron)
(703) 647-6543
rriggins@rpfinancial.com

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Ronald (Ron) S. Riggins, President and Managing Director of RP® Financial, LC., has been an advisor, strategist and financial analyst to the banking and financial services industries since 1980. He has been helping banking institutions and other financial service firms successfully address difficult strategic issues and transactions and develop techniques to enhance shareholder value, including mergers/acquisitions, initial and secondary equity offerings and branch sales/purchases and perform a wide variety of corporate valuation matters. His clientele and their subsidiaries have included financial institutions (commercial banks, thrift institutions, credit unions, insurance companies and agencies, and mortgage banks), regulators and the investment community.

Mr. Riggins has extensive capital markets experience, including initial and secondary offerings of debt and equity issues. He has served as financial advisor in hundreds of capital market transactions, ranging in offering size up to $4 billion, including the largest deals ranking among the largest financial institution stock offerings in U.S. history. In capital markets transactions, Mr. Riggins has provided various corporate valuations, due diligence and strategic planning services. Under the direction of Mr. Riggins, RP® has become a national leader in merger advisory services for insured financial institutions. In addition, he has served as a liaison with attorneys, other investment bankers, accountants and regulatory officials in a variety of corporate transactions and other matters.

Prior to forming RP® , Mr. Riggins spent nine years as a financial advisor, securities analyst and senior consultant at other leading banking and financial services consulting firms. Prior to RP Financial, he was the Executive Vice President with Financial Strategy Group (now Capital Resources), where he directed much of the firm’s corporate valuation, merger advisory, strategic planning and consulting practice. His previous affiliations include Riviere Securities Corporation and Kaplan, Smith & Associates, formerly the pre-eminent thrift and bank consulting firm during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Mr. Riggins currently resides in Virginia and earned his undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary. Mr. Riggins has spoken to groups within the financial services industry on numerous occasions and has been quoted in a variety of national, regional and trade publications. Mr. Riggins has served as a valuation and merger advisory expert in various litigation matters, including cases involving dissenters rights, supervisory goodwill and stock conversion valuations and methodology.