Guaranty Bancshares Company Culture

Mr. Kirk L. Lee serves as the President of Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. Mr. Lee has been Chief Credit Officer at Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A. since 2014 and served as its President. Mr. Lee served as an Executive Vice President of Guaranty Bond Bank since January 2002. He has been with Guaranty Bond Bank since 1992 and served as its President of the Paris location until 2002. He has been Vice Chairman of Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A. since 2014. He has been a Director of Guaranty Bancshares Inc. since January 25, 2005. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Ouachita Baptist University as well as graduated from the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking.

Mr. Clifton A. Payne, also known as Cappy, serves as Senior Executive Vice President, Secretary, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of Guaranty Bancshares Inc. Mr. Payne serves as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President at Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A. and served as its Vice President since 1986 and Executive Vice President since 1996. He joined Guaranty Bank & Trust in 1984 after four years in private practice with a Certified Public Accountant firm. He served as Executive Vice President of Guaranty Bancshares Inc. He has been a Director of Guaranty Bancshares Inc. and Guaranty Bank & Trust since 1995. He serves as a Director of Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A.

Mr. Randall R. Kucera, also known as Randy, serves as a Vice President at Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. Mr. Kucera serves as General Counsel and Executive Vice President at Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. and Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A. Prior to joining Guaranty Bank in 2012, he was a partner in the litigation division of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP, or Akin Gump, for more than five years. Prior to joining Akin Gump, he served as an assistant district attorney in the Dallas County District Attorney's Office. In his 30-year legal career, Mr. Kucera focused on complex commercial litigation, including a wide variety of contract, antitrust, lender liability, business tort, intellectual property and insurance matters. He previously served as the litigation partner in charge of Akin Gump's commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) litigation practice, which handled complex commercial real estate litigation involving institutional lenders, financial service companies, conduit lenders and master and special servicers. Mr. Kucera has been a speaker at various continuing education seminars in Texas on the subjects of litigation and civil procedure. He has published articles on the subject of litigating claims in mortgage and asset-backed securities matters, including publications in the American Bar Association Real Estate Litigation newsletter and the Mortgage and Asset-Backed Securities Litigation Handbook. He serves as Director at Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and is admitted to practice before the U.S. district courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western districts of Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th and 7th circuits and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Kucera is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, 1979. Mr. Kucera is also a graduate of Yale Law School, J.D., 1983.