Ray Davis
Board Chair
President and CEO, Umpqua Holdings
Ray Davis, President and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, parent company of Umpqua Bank is at the forefront of change in the financial industry.  Davis is leading the charge with innovative delivery systems and pushing the Oregon-based financial services company into uncharted waters by embracing technology and challenging traditional notions of what a bank should be. Davis joined Umpqua Bank in 1994 and has grown the bank from six banking locations and $140 million in assets in 1994 to 127 banking locations and more than $7 billion today. National publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fast Company, Business Week, Business 2.0 and Newsweek have acknowledged the bank’s strategy and growth.  Davis was recently recognized as one of high finance’s 25 most influential people by U.S. Banker Magazine.