Blaise B. Bettendorf

First Financial Holdings, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company. The company through its subsidiaries provides integrated financial solutions, including personal, business, and wealth management services. It offers residential, commercial and consumer loan products, consumer and business deposit products, debit cards, cash management services, safe deposit boxes, trust and fiduciary services, and reinsurance of private mortgage insurance and premium financing activities. The company serves individuals and businesses throughout coastal South Carolina, as well as the Florence, Columbia, and upstate regions of South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. First Financial Holdings was founded in September 1987 and is headquartered in Charleston, SC.

Summit Financial Corp. has supervised and coordinated the activities of its subsidiaries and to provide them with capital and services of various kinds. The Company derived substantially all of its income from management fees for services performed, interest on invested funds, interest on intercompany loans, and other intercompany payments as appropriate from the subsidiaries. The Company conducted its business from four banking offices and 11 consumer finance offices throughout South Carolina. Summit Financial was headquartered in Greenville, SC

Carolina Commerce Bank is a state commercial bank. The company is based in Gastonia, NC. Carolina Commerce Bank was acquired by Carolina Trust Bank on October 23, 2009 for $5.50 million.

First Federal Bank is a federally chartered savings and loan institution. The company is based in Charleston, SC. The company was founded by R. Hampton Painter.