Ray Davis

Ray Davis, as president and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, pioneered a customer-centric banking strategy and culture that transformed his company and challenged the industry. Davis recognized the opportunity to reimagine bank product delivery and customer experience, and set out to reinvent what a bank looks like, how it operates and how it engages the communities it serves.

Since 1994, when Davis first joined Umpqua as CEO, Umpqua grew from six locations and $140 million in assets to more than 330 locations and $24 billion in assets and today has a reputation nationally and internationally as one of the world’s most innovative banks. The company annually hosted dozens of banks and other companies from around the world who traveled to study Umpqua’s unique culture and distinctive approach to design, service and staffing.

In addition to the rapid growth under Davis’ leadership, Umpqua was recognized in numerous national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fast Company, BusinessWeek and CNBC for challenging the industry’s status quo and setting a new bar for banking. In addition, Davis was named one of high finance’s twenty-five most influential people by U.S. Banker Magazine.