TD Bank Bolsters Orlando Market Team with Addition of Bobby Cooper, Tony Ferry and Eric Stewart

TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, provides customers with a full range of financial products and services at 1,300 convenient locations from Maine to Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. (February 14, 2011) – TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, has bolstered its commercial lending team in the Orlando, Fla., market with the addition of Bobby Cooper, Tony Ferry and Eric Stewart to serve customers throughout the Central Florida region.

Bobby Cooper joins TD Bank as a Small Business Relationship Manager in Winter Park, Fla. A vice president, he will oversee small business lending and business development at 9 TD Bank stores in the Central Florida market.
Cooper has 11 years of banking and lending experience. Prior to joining TD Bank, he served as a Commercial Banker at BB&T in Volusia County.

A Lake Mary, Fla., resident, Cooper is a 1993 graduate of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and is involved in a number of UFC activities. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Alumni, the Golden Knights Club – UCF Athletics, and the UCF Alumni Association, and serves on the executive committee for the UCF College of Business. A native of Largo, Fla., Cooper is a 1988 graduate of Seminole High School.
Tony Ferry joins TD Bank as a Vice President and Commercial Relationship Manager and will be based in Winter Park, Fla. He will be responsible for developing new banking relationships and providing a range of lending services to businesses throughout Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties that produce annual revenues greater than $5 million.

Ferry has 14 years of experience in banking and lending. Prior to joining TD Bank, he served as a Vice President in the Commercial Banking Group at SunTrust Bank in Orlando.

An Orlando resident, Ferry received an MBA and undergraduate degree from Rollins College in Winter Park.

Eric E. Stewart joins TD Bank as a Commercial Relationship Manager in Commercial Banking in Winter Park, Fla. A vice president, he will build new and develop existing relationships, providing a range of lending services to businesses that produce revenue of greater than $5 million throughout Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties.
Stewart has 16 years of commercial banking and lending experience. Prior to joining TD Bank, he served as a Senior Business Banker at Wells Fargo Bank in Orlando.

A Winter Garden, Fla., resident, Stewart serves on the board of March of Dimes, Florida Chapter, and holds two positions as Treasurer and Co-Chairs the chapter’s March of Dimes – March for Babies. He is a 1994 graduate of Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, is one of the 10 largest banks in the United States, providing customers with a full range of financial products and services at more than 1,250 convenient locations from Maine to Florida. On September 30, 2010, The South Financial Group, Inc. was acquired by TD Bank Group, and its subsidiary Carolina First Bank merged with TD Bank. Carolina First Bank will continue to operate under the trade names Carolina First Bank in North and South Carolina and Mercantile Bank in Florida until conversion and rebranding in 2011. TD Bank is headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Portland, Maine. Carolina First Bank and Mercantile Bank are trade names of TD Bank, N.A. For more information, visit www.tdbank.com.

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