Accelerated: Recent Episodes
William Mills/The Venture Center
Accelerated is a collaboration between the esteemed public relations firm, the William Mills Agency and the award-winning entrepreneurial service organization, The Venture Center. We serve entrepreneurs and innovators, and find the rapidly evolving digital banking landscape endlessly fascinating! On Accelerated, we delve into various banking and fintech partnerships to see the nuts and bolts of how innovation happens in the real world, to solve for real world challenges.
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In this episode of Accelerated, Nathan Baumeister, CEO of ZSuite Technologies, and Marc Romvos, Senior Vice President – Business & Government Banking at Leader Bank, discuss how technology initially launched by the bank six years ago evolved into an entirely new fintech.
In this episode of Accelerated, Heather Sugg and Wayne Miller are joined by Seattle Bank's Jayson Callies and Agora's Arcady Lapiro to discuss the bank's digital transformation for their high net worth, ultra tech-savvy clients and board, and their overall partnership strategy.
In this episode of Accelerated, William Mills Agency's Heather Sugg and The Venture Center's Wayne Miller talk with Teslar's Joe Ehrhardt and Bank of Zachary's Mark Marionneaux and discuss their experience forging a partnership at The Venture Center's ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator. Open and candid conversations brought these partners together, and they let us into their experiences. Together we discuss how to accelerate change and build a vision for the future. It's challenging to think differently, but fintech and community bank leaders like these find ways to innovate and prepare for long-term sustainability.
Welcome to Accelerated. In Accelerated, William Mills and The Venture Center pull back the curtain to share a behind-the-scenes, candid look at how fintech-banking deals are really made and why they're important.
William Mills Agency's Heather Sugg and The Venture Center's Wayne Miller are joined this episode by Finzly's Booshan Rengachari, and Lead Bank's Josh Rowland for a conversation about how the bank reinvented itself into a digital platform that can serve both small business and consumer clients in new ways.
We discuss the important role of community banks in today's society and how fintechs can help bankers build modern solutions within their existing IT infrastructures. The discussion emphasizes that banks have to be in a mode of continual digital transformation, which means changing their culture and building resilient, sustainable business models.
Welcome to Accelerated. In Accelerated, William Mills and The Venture Center pull back the curtain to share a behind-the-scenes, candid look at how fintech-banking deals are really made and why they're important.
In the debut episode of Accelerated, William Mills Agency's Heather Sugg and The Venture Center's Wayne Miller talk with ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator Alumni AK Patel of Lendsmart and Patrick Sells, formerly of Quantic Bank, about how fintechs and banks can develop deep relationships that help both achieve greatness. They discuss a topic that you'll hear throughout this series: that bankers are no longer comfortable with a status quo – the community bank industry is relying on bank and fintech partnerships to provide convenience, ease and transparency and relate to consumers quickly.