Business Chief USA October 2020

QUONTIC BANK
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“So many companies
have ‘core values’ that
are simply, what I call,
‘permission to play
values’. They’re not
unique to them and
so they don’t become
a shared language”
—
Patrick Sells,
CIO, Quontic Bank
interest in innovation which befits his
role at Quontic Bank, he states that
early experiences taught him the value
of trying to imagine operations from
different perspectives. “When you’re
in the middle of doing something it’s
really hard to reimagine things. But,
when you are able to truly step back
and reframe the world around you,
you can easily find innovation. A lot of
what I’ve done at Quontic Bank has
been saying, ‘Okay, what if we thought
about it very differently?’” Indeed,
the Bank is no stranger to accolades
itself; it was recently ranked as one of
Bankrate’s 2020 ‘Top Online Banks’.
When asked what he attributes this
success to, Sells claims that Quontic
Bank’s culture and mission to redefine
what a ‘digital bank’ is has been pivotal
to its acclaim with customers and the
wider industry.
Corporate culture could be Quontic
Bank’s most important quality. Based
on a four-pillar philosophy, Sells
makes a clear distinction between his
organisation’s approach to culture
and others: “So many companies have
OCTOBER 2020