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G. Jacob Savage III, CFA

Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Equity Investment Banking

Mr. Savage serves as the Co-Head of BB&T Capital Markets’ Equity Investment Banking Group as well as the Senior Managing Director of its Financial Institutions Group. He joined BB&T as a result of the Scott & Stringfellow acquisition 1998. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1980 and earned his Chartered Financial Analyst certification in 1994. His 23 years of experience has been primarily with public banks and thrifts and business development companies, providing them with M&A advice and structuring public equity transactions. Mr. Savage has been a senior banker in over 40 M&A transactions and well over 75 public equity or equity linked transactions.