NEW YORK, April 7, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Veteran business journalist Sasha Salama joins D. Ben Berry, Chairman, President & CEO, Gateway Financial Holdings, Inc., (GBTS) to discuss the company's industry, strategy, financials and positioning.
Click here to view video: http://investor.shareholder.com/ceosignature/webcast.cfm?mediaid=30552&k=47E1BA4E171DCC4A41CC4442D95FE488
Mr. Berry founded Gateway Financial Holdings, Inc. in 1998. He is a native of Hertford, North Carolina. He attended Chowan College, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Banking, and a Graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. Mr. Berry began his banking career in 1977 as a management trainee with Peoples Bank & Trust Company (now RBC Centura) in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. While at Centura, Mr. Berry held a number of management positions in various cities throughout eastern North Carolina. He served as Regional Executive for Centura Bank covering northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia before leaving in March of 1998 to form Gateway Bank.
Mr. Berry currently serves on the American Bankers Association Government Relations Council and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Bankers Association. He has previously served as a member of the Community Bankers Council of the American Bankers Association and serves on numerous local civic boards.
About Gateway Financial Holdings:
Gateway Financial Holdings, Inc. is the parent company for Gateway Bank and Trust, which first opened its doors for business in 1998 with one office and 12 employees in northeastern North Carolina. Since that time, the holding company has grown to $1.9 billion in assets and more than 400 employees, through the Bank and its subsidiaries: The Bank of Richmond (a division of Gateway Bank and Trust), Gateway Insurance Services, Gateway Investment Services, Gateway Bank Mortgage, and Gateway Title Agency. With 35 financial centers across eastern North Carolina and Virginia, Gateway Financial is among the fastest growing bank holding companies in the nation.
The Company's diverse markets include some of the strongest in the nation - the Hampton Roads MSA (including Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Norfolk) in Virginia and the Research Triangle MSA (including Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill) in North Carolina. The Company also serves two state capitals: Richmond, Virginia and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Financial Centers:
Twenty in Virginia: Virginia Beach (7), Richmond (6), Chesapeake (3), Emporia (2), Suffolk and Norfolk; and Fifteen in North Carolina: Chapel Hill, Elizabeth City (3), Edenton, Kitty Hawk (2), Raleigh (3), Moyock, Nags Head, Plymouth, Roper, and Wilmington.
For more information on the opportunity to have your CEO discuss your company, please call NASDAQ CEO Signature Series, 978/461-3141.
The NASDAQ CEO Signature Series logo is available at http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=4839