St. Paul, Minn. | March 6, 2025 — Drake Bank welcomes Ted Sirianni to the senior management team as senior vice president and chief banking officer. With over 14 years of banking leadership and more than 20 years of lending and financial analysis experience, Sirianni brings a wealth of expertise to the Bank. Sirianni previously served ...
St. Paul, Minn. | December 13, 2022 – Drake Bank has promoted Justin Robinson to senior vice president, risk and compliance. Robinson joined the Bank in January 2021 as vice president, compliance and risk. With this promotion, Robinson will join the Bank’s senior management team. Robinson will continue to oversee the Bank’s compliance, internal audit, risk, ...
Consider the saying, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," those that confront challenges emerge stronger. While facing uncertainty and adversity in 2020, our team built organizational and personal resiliency by pivoting, re-prioritizing, and getting creative throughout the tension. Resilience means staying strong for difficult moments while planning for better times in the future. In ...
We play many roles in our personal lives – as children, colleagues, managers, parents, mentors, role models, the list goes on and on. The same is true with the roles that we share in our community – we are neighbors, customers, members, and volunteers. Our lives are laced together by each of the roles and ...
Who knew that 2020 would be the year that Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other video conferencing technologies would become as popular as food delivery services and Uber? Video conferencing has changed the way many are doing business. Even as a financial institution, we embraced video conferencing technology for meeting with our clients and partners, instead ...
The colloquial saying “Minnesota Nice” is often used to describe the behavior of Minnesota residents as being overly courteous and friendly. As we’ve traversed the uncharted waters that 2020 has unfolded, “Minnesota Nice” could be used to describe Minnesotan’s dedication to community support and giving, as the most charitable state in America. Nonprofits play a ...
Similar to what I shared in my last post, awareness in leadership is critical. As a leader, many of us have learned and been taught to build our teams to add expertise. What I have found to be equally important is evaluating team members’ strengths and weaknesses to fill-in and balance ourselves and the team ...
Gaining Awareness We all know it, it’s been said many different ways, and so many times – so let me make this short: Our lives, business, and normalcies have entirely changed. So, when our Human Resource and Talent Development Officer, Melissa Deutsch, suggested checking our team status by executing a word cloud, my immediate answer ...