04/12/2023

Boardroom Battle

Few banks can tout a success story as enviable as Cherry Hill, New Jersey-based Commerce Bancorp. Anyone who invested in Commerce back in 1973, when Vernon Hill II founded the bank, saw their investment grow 470 times by 2007, when the bank sold to TD Bank Financial Group, he says. “The 34-year annual return to our shareholders was 23% a year. … If you look at the growth numbers of Commerce, there was nobody even close to it.” The bank went from a single location with just nine employees to almost $50 billion in assets, more than 12,000 employees and…

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Emily McCormick

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Emily McCormick is Vice President of Editorial & Research for Bank Director. Emily oversees research projects, from in-depth reports to Bank Director’s annual surveys on M&A, risk, compensation, governance and technology. She also manages content for the Bank Services Program, including Bank Director’s Online Training Series. In addition to speaking and moderating discussions at Bank Director’s in-person and virtual events, Emily writes and edits for Bank Director magazine, BankDirector.com and Bank Director’s weekly newsletter, The Slant. She started her career in the circulation department at the Knoxville News-Sentinel and graduated summa cum laude from The University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and International Business.

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