HomeBanc CEO to Address Great Place to Work Institute Conference in Boston; or How a Preacher Came to Lead HR at an NYSE Compan
05 April 2006 - 2:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
ATLANTA, April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HomeBanc Mortgage
Corporation (NYSE:HMB) Chairman and CEO Patrick S. Flood and
HomeBanc Chief People Officer Dr. Ike Reighard will present their
perspective on the relationship between the CEO and the human
resources function on Friday, April 7 at the Great Place to Work
(GPTW) Institute Conference being held this week at the Westin
Copley Place Hotel in Boston. Flood and Reighard will speak at 2
p.m. The conference runs from April 5 through April 7 and features
speakers from a number of companies that have been ranked among the
best companies to work for in the country. For more information on
the GPTW Institute or the conference, visit
http://www.greatplacetowork.com/ Flood and Reighard will discuss
their day-to-day operating philosophy, HomeBanc's overall
perspective on managing people and maximizing their potential and
productivity, and how the CEO and the head of HR must interface to
accomplish this goal. HomeBanc placed No. 14 on FORTUNE magazine's
2006 list of "The Top 100 Companies to Work For." HomeBanc placed
No. 20 on the 2005 list and No. 39 on the 2004 list. In addition,
within the past six months, HomeBanc has been ranked the No. 1
place to work in the respective cities by Atlanta Business
Chronicle, the Tampa Bay Business Journal and The Triangle Business
Journal (Raleigh, N.C.). Reighard, a minister with a doctorate in
divinity, was well known in the Southeast for pastoring two large
Atlanta area churches before joining HomeBanc as the company's
Chief People Officer in 2002. He had also done extensive writing,
consulting and speaking on work-life balance and quality of life.
"Ike originally came to us as a consultant on work-life balance
issues," said Flood. "When we searched for a new leader in our HR
department, I was astounded how many HR leaders did not report to
the CEO and how their most important accomplishments seemed to be
terminating or downsizing employees and avoiding law suits in the
process. I believe that people are a company's most valuable asset.
The steward of that asset is the CEO and he or she should have a
strong relationship with the person who manages people every day.
Ike's background in leadership, building organizations and
work-life balance issues made him the perfect person for this
important position." Flood formulated HomeBanc's commitment to
people as a key differentiator for HomeBanc in the mid 1990s when
it was a small Atlanta-based mortgage company with about 150
employees. Flood believes that commitment has been an important
element in HomeBanc's strategy. Since the mid 1990s, HomeBanc has
expanded throughout north Georgia and into Florida and North
Carolina and is now one of the larger mortgage lenders in the
Southeast. Being a great place to work does not mean being an easy
place to work, Flood notes. "HomeBanc has a very challenging work
environment," he says. "We hire very selectively and we
collectively challenge and performance-manage each associate to
meet their goals. I believe that has been very important to our
growth over the years and I'm looking forward to sharing this
information with other companies at this conference." HomeBanc
Mortgage, a mortgage banking company that focuses on originating
purchase money residential mortgage loans in the southeast United
States, is a subsidiary of HomeBanc Corp. (NYSE:HMB). HomeBanc
Mortgage is headquartered in Atlanta and has offices in Georgia,
Florida and North Carolina. For more information about HomeBanc
Corp., HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation, or the company's mortgage
products, contact HomeBanc at http://www.homebanc.com/. DATASOURCE:
HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation CONTACT: Media, Mark Scott,
+1-404-459-7452, or , or Investors, Carol Knies, +1-404-459-7653,
or , both of HomeBanc Web site: http://www.homebanc.com/
http://www.greatplacetowork.com/
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