Vern J. Bender

Vern J. Bender

Vern J. Bender is a native of Saginaw, Michigan, but

he has been a property owner at Ocean Isle Beach since

1979. Mr. Bender received a BS degree in marketing from

Michigan State University in 1962. Vern has over thirtyfive years of field and corporate executive experience in retail and financial management. He has held various field and national management positions with Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Bender served as chief operating officer for the retail division of Grantree Furniture Corporation in Portland, Oregon. Vern ran a retail division for Reliable Stores, Inc., of Columbia, Maryland. Later, he served as chief executive officer of Transamerica Corporation, an asset management company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Through his Bender Consulting Group, Inc., Vern has a successful track record in managing turnarounds and/or workouts, strategic planning, and new business development for companies within the retail industry and the commercial finance industry. Vern is a local historian at Ocean Isle Beach.

He also enjoys scuba diving and saltwater fishing. His children, Stacey Bender and Matthew Bender, reside in Portland, Oregon, where Vern maintains a vacation home in the foothills of Mount Hood, Oregon.