The Slant Podcast Bank Director

Lead Director Dave Porteous provides insights into culture, crisis and the value of ESG at Huntington. 

RSM Senior Analyst Brandon Koeser says that economic uncertainty is the biggest risk facing U.S. banks today.

Bank Director and Former Executive Vice President for the Federal Reserve Julie Stackhouse learned about leadership during the five years she spent as a very active stay-at-home mom.

Jay Sidhu came to the United States from India with hardly a penny in his pocket and built one of the 20 largest banks in the country. He tells his personal story of risk and resilience in this edition of The Slant podcast.

Eighteen months ago, Arvest Bank hired industry outsider Laura Merling to drive change at the Bentonville, Arkansas-based bank. She relishes the challenge of transforming “people, process and technology” at a legacy organization, rather than coming up with a new product at a startup. In this conversation, Merling shares how she’s motivating the bank’s thousands of employees to embrace change, why it’s important to listen, and the role that technology partners Thought Machine and Google Cloud play in the bank’s transformation.  

Frank Sorrentino III wasn’t happy with the customer service he was receiving after his bank at the time was acquired. So he started ConnectOne, where he is its de facto chief customer officer.