Anthony J. Nocella

ANTHONY J. NOCELLA, a Director of Franklin Bank Corp. since April 2002,
is President and Chief Executive Officer of Franklin Bank Corp. and is
the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Franklin Bank,
SSB. Mr. Nocella was co-Founder, Vice Chairman and Director of Bank
United Corp. and was Chief Financial Officer of Bank United Corp. from
its inception in 1988 until its merger with Washington Mutual in
February 2001. He founded and managed commercial banking, financial
markets (mortgage banking and capital markets) and was Chairman of the
brokerage division of that bank. Mr. Nocella directed the issuance of
the first commercial mortgage-backed bonds (REMIC), and the first
single-family residential REMIC issued by Salomon Brothers and FNMA, and
brought three companies public, Bank United Corp. (1996), PSFS (1983)
and Humana, Inc., formerly American Medicorp, Inc. (1970). From 1988 to
1990, Mr. Nocella provided consulting services to Bank United Corp., as
well as other financial institutions as President of Nocella Management
Company, a firm that specialized in asset and liability management
consulting for financial institutions. From 1981 to 1987, Mr. Nocella
served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of
Meritor Financial Group, as well as President and Founder of its
commercial banking/financial markets arm, Meritor Financial Markets.
During his 13 years at Meritor (1974 to 1987), he also served as
President of PSFS Management Company, the holding company of The
Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, the nation’s largest savings
institution at the time. Mr. Nocella’s other positions have included
Controller and Director of Financial Services for American Medicorp,
Inc., Senior Managing Auditor and Consultant for KPMG Peat Marwick and
Adjunct Professor of Finance at St. Joseph’s University and Drexel
University. Mr. Nocella, a Certified Public Accountant, received an
undergraduate degree in Accounting from LaSalle University and an MBA in
Computer Science and Finance from Temple University. He also completed
the Graduate Bank Financial Management Program of the Wharton School at
the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Nocella is past Chairman and a
Director of the Texas Savings and Community Bankers Association and
delegate and past President and Key Member of the Financial Executives
Institute. Mr. Nocella also serves on the National Association of Home
Builders Mortgage Roundtable.