Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
Just as we expect our leaders/members to leverage relationships and grow from strategic alliances and partnerships, so too does LXCouncil. Below is a sampling of some of our key strategic partners and alliances.
Howard Bank
Baltimore’s largest independently owned bank, Howard Bank serves the financial needs of people in Baltimore City and its surrounding counties. Their customer-centered approach to banking is built from our foundation that makes up our vision, mission and core values. Those values include being invested, insightful, agile and passionate.
Since 2004, Howard Bank has dedicated their services to meet the financial needs of businesses and families in our local communities. With a deep understanding of the neighborhoods and business climate in our markets, Howard Bank focuses on banking and lending services for local families and businesses. The executive management team and board of directors have made building and maintaining relationships our primary focus.
Today, Howard Bank is a leading banking institution in Greater Baltimore serving small and medium-sized businesses in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, Cecil and Howard Counties as well as select businesses in Delaware from its headquarters in Baltimore City.
Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council 
Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council is a member-driven association working to promote the growth of the Roanoke-Blacksburg technology and innovation community. Membership ranges from emerging technology firms to the largest employers in the region. RBTC is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization.
The National Bank
In 1891, the Commonwealth of Virginia issued a charter to a new bank, The Bank of Blacksburg. From their humble beginnings doing business from one room of the Green Hotel, National Bank has grown steadily through the years along with the communities they serve. Today, with 25 locations across southwest Virginia and over $1 billion in assets, their commitment to friendly, personalized service and local decision making remains the key to their success and their highest priority.
Explore National Bank’s history – click here to view our historical timeline!
The Bank of Tampa
With assets tot
aling more than $1.5 billion, The Bank of Tampa is one of the largest community banks in the Tampa Bay area. They have a proud history and a strong legacy that is reflected in everything they do. For more than three decades, they have developed quality relationships that are personal and accessible, and they aim to deliver a client experience like no other. Since The Bank of Tampa’s inception in 1984, it has been privately owned by its staff, directors, and clients.
The bank was built with the foundation of a commercial bank, but over the years, they have strived to diversify their portfolio and reach clients with many different backgrounds and professions. Today, they offer commercial banking, corporate banking—which includes middle market, commercial real estate, SBA lending, and treasury services—personal banking, wealth management, and trust services—truly making them a full-service community bank.
State Fair Community College 
SFCC (State Fair Community College) offers Skills and Professional Certificates, Associate of Applied Science degrees and Associate of Arts, Associate of Fine Arts, Associate of Arts in Teaching, and Associate of Science in Chemistry or Engineering degrees for transferring to four-year colleges or universities. Explore all our areas of study.
Attend SFCC in Boonville, Clinton, Eldon, Lake of the Ozarks, Sedalia, Warsaw, Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Noster, and online.
VTCRC (Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center)
VTCRC (Virginia Tech Corporate
Research Center) encourages and enables creative entrepreneurship world-wide, through innovative curriculum, local business resource centers, and a global network of cooperating regions, all focused on three essential contributors to success:
- clear understanding of fundamental business principles;
- access to timely, relevant information; and
- meaningful personal and corporate relationships.
Supported by the continuing confidence and enthusiasm of its clients, sponsors, and friends, both corporate and individual. Its world headquarters is in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Woods Rogers 
Woods Rogers is Virginia’s law firm. With over 80 attorneys in four locations across the Commonwealth, the firm has demonstrated its commitment to businesses and individuals for more than 125 years. We provide counsel to an array of industries throughout Virginia, the Mid-Atlantic and beyond. Our largest practice areas by attorney count are Business and Corporate Law; Labor and Employment Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Tax, and Trusts and Estates. Our size allows us to be strategic, yet flexible, in our approach to solving complex problems for clients.
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