Building a Banking Career
As he grew up in Zambia, Africa, Ash Patel, a member of Mihaylo College Dean’s Advisory Board, didn’t know he was going to be a banker, let alone the head of his own bank. “It was a surprise that I made my career in banking as that was not the original plan,” says Patel, who pursued a graduate degree in finance at Loughborough University in England. In the mid-1980s, he moved to California and got a job as a teller at Bank of America.