Rex Copeland is senior vice president and CFO of Great Southern Bank. Mr. Copeland is a member of the company’s executive management team and is responsible for the overall financial management of the company, including accounting, balance sheet management, financial planning and analysis, corporate treasury, investor relations, corporate investments and tax. He joined Great Southern in 2000.

From 1986 to 2000, Mr. Copeland served other financial services companies in the areas of corporate accounting, internal audit and independent public accounting. He previously served clients as a certified public accountant.

Todd Cuppia is a managing director and head of balance sheet risk management at Chatham Financial. Mr. Cuppia advises over 200 financial institutions across the U.S. and Europe on developing and executing strategies to manage complex economic risks. He brings nearly 20 years of capital markets and banking experience to help financial institutions implement successful interest rate risk management programs.

Prior to joining Chatham Financial, Mr. Cuppia spent 11 years with Stifel Financial as a managing director in the fixed income research and strategy group. He advised financial institutions, state and local government entities, pension funds on cross-sector relative value, macro-based portfolio strategies and derivative hedging strategies.

Dave Sweeney is a managing director at Chatham Financial. Mr. Sweeney leads the business development efforts in the Midwest where he advises financial institutions on hedging strategies. He runs the investment and treasury advisors team.

Prior to joining Chatham Financial, Mr. Sweeney spent 14 years with Ernst & Young as a principal in the financial institutions practice, and served as treasurer and chief investment officer for two community banks. Mr. Sweeney has experience marketing and selling interest rate derivative products to commercial bank loan customers.