Lawton M. Nease, III (Mac) is the President of Nease, Lagana, Eden & Culley, Inc. which was founded in 1988. He specializes in planning for estates and businesses in the affluent marketplace, and has been involved in some of the industry's largest and most complex life insurance placements. As an adjunct professor for Georgia State University's Graduate School of Business, he has instructed courses in business insurance, executive benefits, and estate planning. He has also been a special lecturer to the national legal, accounting and estate planning communities for many years and chaired the committee representing the insurance industry in meetings with the US Treasury and the IRS to negotiate new insurance regulations in 2001. He authored the dissertation "Estate and Gift Tax Consequences of Third Party Owned Life Insurance."

Mr. Nease has served numerous leadership roles in the insurance industry, including national president of the Advanced Association for Life underwriting, president of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council and the Society of Financial Service Professionals. He is the recipient of the prestigious Harry I. Davis Award representing outstanding leadership to the Atlanta Insurance community and the "Distinguished Service Award" from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Numerous charitable and community organizations have benefitted from Mr. Nease's involvement. He is the Past Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Georgia Tech Foundation, served as a director of the Educational Foundation at Georgia State University and sits on the boards of M Financial Group, M Financial Investment Advisors, and M Funds, Inc.

Mr. Nease is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology in business and industrial management. He has an MBA and a Ph.D. in business from Georgia State University and the CLU® designation from The American College.