The Vitex Alliance

The Vitex Alliance is a strategic advisory partnership providing member banks with the guid ance, knowledge, and business tools to succeed in today's competitive market. Vitex serves as an advisory member of your bank's technology team assisting your staff in implementing your strategic technology plan and making sound technology decisions. The combination of your staff's knowledge of your bank and the expert up-to-date industry knowledge of the Vitex professionals is a team that ensures success. Think of it as outsourcing your bank's CTO function.

Membership in The Vitex Alliance entitles the bank to a combination of web-based Technology Management Tools, supplemented by a combination of phone and email consulting services, and optional discounted fee based Consulting Services. The tools and services are specifically developed to meet the complex demands of today’s community bank.

Vitex Alliance Professionals

Being a member of The Vitex Alliance provides you access to the entire staff of Vitex professionals. Our people differentiate us from our competitors. Vitex staff professionals have a wealth of overall experience in banking and related industries with each having a specific area of expertise.

Vitex Alliance Services

• Technology Planning and Implementation
  
• Vendor Management and Contract Administration
  
• Knowledge Management
• Business Continuity Planning Systems
  
• Marketing and Customer Relationship Management
  
• Strategic Management Consulting

The Alliance Partnership Experience

• The Vitex Alliance Monthly Alliance Newsletter-a monthly newsletter with feature articles on current subjects of strategic importance will be sent electronically to as many of your executive management and staff as requested.
  
  
• CEO & President Executive Coaching-we encourage the president, CEO and senior executives to contact The Vitex Alliance for advice and expertise on general banking subjects as well as technology related issues. We will be happy to discuss organizational and staff issues as well as technology related items. We will provide an executive perspective on technology issues in terms that are appropriate for an executive.
  
  
• Vitex Alliance CEO Conference-offers CEO's and other bank executives the opportunity to meet with their peers for the purpose of addressing key topics selected by Alliance CEO's, and providing a forum for sharing between bank executives in a unique environment.
  
  
• Vitex Alliance Technology Conference-designed for technology and operations managers to participate in discussions on selected technology topics and preview the latest technology advances.
  
  
• Through the Vitex Alliance you have access to peer group executives all around the country to discuss current banking issues and opportunities.
  
  

A Proven Value

For a low monthly fee you have access to all of these services. Here is what Randy Dempsey, President and CEO of Effingham State Bank, had to say about belonging to The Vitex Alliance:

"Our Decision to outsource our CTO function was two fold. The first was economic: Outsourcing gave us the expertise that we needed at much less the cost than hiring someone in-house. We also did not feel that we had the workload to give a full time person, given the pay that this job would demand." Dempsey went on to say, "Outsourcing has given us a perspective that I don't know that we would have ever had."

For More Information:

Contact:	Mitch Hurd
	Director Vitex Alliance
	704-663-5858 ext. 137
	mhurd@vitex.com