Branch Out

Dan Davis smiles slyly when he says, “I'm the kind of guy who doesn't shy away from hardships.”

The trim, fit 52-year-old banker was talking about his grueling 70-mile Saturday morning bike outings that loop Winter Park and the surrounding area.

But he could have just as easily meant his first week of work in fall 2014 at Maitland-based Axiom Bank. That's when the institution, then Urban Trust Bank, threw Davis right into it: the bank's board asked Davis to write a new business plan. The task included reorganizing the accounting department, crafting a short-term and long-term narrative to meet financial goals and evaluating acquisition targets.