WILLIAM K. POU, JR.

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SouthState Corp

Filing Date	Source Excerpt
2020-08-11	Mr. Pou was appointed to our Board of Directors on June 7, 2020 in connection with the Merger. He is the Chairman of the board, Executive Vice President and Chairman of the Compliance Committee of W.S. Badcock Corporation (dba Badcock Home Furniture & More), where he is responsible for the retail operations of over 373 stores in eight states throughout the Southeastern United States. Mr. Pou has spent his entire adult life with this organization and has been involved in all aspects of its operations including the consumer credit division as well as personally owning and operating several stores between 1979 and 1998 as an independent dealer. He was also a founding director of the First National Bank of Polk County in 1992, one of the initial three banks which were merged together to form CenterState. Mr. Pou serves on the Boards of Trustees of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida and Lakeland Regional Health. Mr. Pou brings to our Board more than 30 years of experience and insight in consumer credit and collections, as well as experience and knowledge in operating multi-unit, multi-state operations.

Filing Date

Source Excerpt

2020-08-11

Mr. Pou was appointed to our Board of Directors on June 7, 2020 in connection with the Merger. He is the Chairman of the board, Executive Vice President and Chairman of the Compliance Committee of W.S. Badcock Corporation (dba Badcock Home Furniture & More), where he is responsible for the retail operations of over 373 stores in eight states throughout the Southeastern United States. Mr. Pou has spent his entire adult life with this organization and has been involved in all aspects of its operations including the consumer credit division as well as personally owning and operating several stores between 1979 and 1998 as an independent dealer. He was also a founding director of the First National Bank of Polk County in 1992, one of the initial three banks which were merged together to form CenterState. Mr. Pou serves on the Boards of Trustees of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida and Lakeland Regional Health. Mr. Pou brings to our Board more than 30 years of experience and insight in consumer credit and collections, as well as experience and knowledge in operating multi-unit, multi-state operations.

Data sourced from SEC filings. Last updated: 2025-10-11