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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Raymond Davis
Title: President and chief executive officer
Organization: Umpqua Holdings Corp., South Umpqua Bank and Strand Atkinson Williams & York.
What we do: Umpqua Holdings is a leading Oregon financial services company. Its primary subsidiary, South Umpqua Bank, has 14 locations in Douglas, Lane, Marion and Multnomah counties. The company is headquartered in Roseburg. Umpqua Holdings Corp. stock is publicly traded on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol "UMPQ."
Education: B.S., University of Nevada, CPA
Residence: Roseburg
BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY
Essential business philosophy: Never get talked out of a good idea. I tend to play my thoughts and ideas in my mind like a motion picture. Unfortunately I can't project them on a screen to enable my people to get caught up in the same excitement that I may feel. I believe that it is human nature to "shoot down" ideas or dreams that people cannot see or visualize. Because of this, many great ideas have never made it to the drawing board. When we went about reinventing South Umpqua's image, it was hard to convince people that this change would be revolutionary-I needed visuals. Now our bank stores feature a retail-style delivery of financial products and services complete with...