Mr. Kenneth Kelly is the chairman and CEO of First Independence Bank. It is now the 7th largest African-American-controlled commercial bank in the country. Kelly is responsible for leading the bank's financial operations, assets, policies and regulations, in addition to overseeing the company's management infrastructure. Kelly is also chairman of the board of MAC Leasing, an equipment leasing company based in Michigan. In April 2018, Kelly was seated as the vice-chair and treasurer of the Auburn University Engineering Alumni Council for a two-year term, which will then ascend to the position of chairman in 2020. He has been appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council for a three-year term and has been appointed nationally to the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation's Community Bank Advisory Committee to provide guidance to the Chairwoman on policy for a two-year term, both in 2018. Kelly earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University and earned his executive M.B.A. degree from the University of Alabama.