Professional achievements
• Developed an active pharmaceutical ingredient, which is used to indicate delayed gastric emptying, a potential precursor to stomach and esophageal cancer, which is currently sold in the European Union.
• Development of several consumer and business deposit products through my career at several financial institutions, which are used by millions of people in the U.S. every day.
Community involvement
Volunteer, Ronald McDonald House; tutoring to students in STEM; volunteer, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals through animal rescue and fostering; judge for Science Olympiad competitions.
Professional “aha” moment
“It was my first job in banking, I was helping our new retail CFO learn about deposits and retail banking. Here was me, a guy in his 20s with a couple years of banking experience, teaching a seasoned, 20-year investment banker out of New York about deposit analytics, pricing and strategy. He offered me a job the next day to work for him, I quickly realized ‘I found what I am good at.’”
Most fulfilling career moment
“Meeting a client who was extremely frustrated with their banking experience, who when I first met him said, ‘You will have to work a miracle for me to stay with your bank.’ He stayed, later becoming a key advocate for us.”
