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ATLANTA, April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation (NYSE:HMB) Chairman and CEO Patrick S. Flood and HomeBanc Chief People Officer Dr. Ike Reighard will present their perspective on the relationship between the CEO and the human resources function on Friday, April 7 at the Great Place to Work (GPTW) Institute Conference being held this week at the Westin Copley Place Hotel in Boston. Flood and Reighard will speak at 2 p.m. The conference runs from April 5 through April 7 and features speakers from a number of companies that have been ranked among the best companies to work for in the country. For more information on the GPTW Institute or the conference, visit http://www.greatplacetowork.com/ Flood and Reighard will discuss their day-to-day operating philosophy, HomeBanc's overall perspective on managing people and maximizing their potential and productivity, and how the CEO and the head of HR must interface to accomplish this goal. HomeBanc placed No. 14 on FORTUNE magazine's 2006 list of "The Top 100 Companies to Work For." HomeBanc placed No. 20 on the 2005 list and No. 39 on the 2004 list. In addition, within the past six months, HomeBanc has been ranked the No. 1 place to work in the respective cities by Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Tampa Bay Business Journal and The Triangle Business Journal (Raleigh, N.C.). Reighard, a minister with a doctorate in divinity, was well known in the Southeast for pastoring two large Atlanta area churches before joining HomeBanc as the company's Chief People Officer in 2002. He had also done extensive writing, consulting and speaking on work-life balance and quality of life. "Ike originally came to us as a consultant on work-life balance issues," said Flood. "When we searched for a new leader in our HR department, I was astounded how many HR leaders did not report to the CEO and how their most important accomplishments seemed to be terminating or downsizing employees and avoiding law suits in the process. I believe that people are a company's most valuable asset. The steward of that asset is the CEO and he or she should have a strong relationship with the person who manages people every day. Ike's background in leadership, building organizations and work-life balance issues made him the perfect person for this important position." Flood formulated HomeBanc's commitment to people as a key differentiator for HomeBanc in the mid 1990s when it was a small Atlanta-based mortgage company with about 150 employees. Flood believes that commitment has been an important element in HomeBanc's strategy. Since the mid 1990s, HomeBanc has expanded throughout north Georgia and into Florida and North Carolina and is now one of the larger mortgage lenders in the Southeast. Being a great place to work does not mean being an easy place to work, Flood notes. "HomeBanc has a very challenging work environment," he says. "We hire very selectively and we collectively challenge and performance-manage each associate to meet their goals. I believe that has been very important to our growth over the years and I'm looking forward to sharing this information with other companies at this conference." HomeBanc Mortgage, a mortgage banking company that focuses on originating purchase money residential mortgage loans in the southeast United States, is a subsidiary of HomeBanc Corp. (NYSE:HMB). HomeBanc Mortgage is headquartered in Atlanta and has offices in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. For more information about HomeBanc Corp., HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation, or the company's mortgage products, contact HomeBanc at http://www.homebanc.com/. DATASOURCE: HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation CONTACT: Media, Mark Scott, +1-404-459-7452, or , or Investors, Carol Knies, +1-404-459-7653, or , both of HomeBanc Web site: http://www.homebanc.com/ http://www.greatplacetowork.com/

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