Patricia Husic Honored As One Of American Banker's Most Powerful Women To Watch

Patricia Husic,President & CEO of Centric Financial Corporation and Centric Bank has been selected as one of American Bankers' Most Powerful Women to Watch from among hundreds of top-tier female bankers nationwide.

Centric Bank, founded in 2007, has expanded to a $1.1 billion financial institution under Husic's steadfast leadership, making it one of the nation's most successful banks. In addition to winning the American Banker Best Banks to Work For award in 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018, Husic received four American Banker Top Team awards, was recognized as one of the Top 50 Fastest-Growing Companies for eight years, and was listed as one of the Top 200 Community Banks in the United States in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019.

She served as the PA Bankers Association's chair in the past and is one of just three women to have done so in the association's 127-year history. Husic also started the Women in Banking Program at PA Banker, which is now in its tenth year.

Husic transformed rhetoric into reality with her vision for advancing women in banking and finance, with 60% of Centric Bank's executive leadership team being female and 70% of the workforce being female. No comparable bank in Pennsylvania has a leadership team with as many women as Centric Bank has.

According to Duncan Campbell, President & CEO of PA Bankers Association, "For the past 15 years, Patti Husic has exhibited extraordinary leadership in guiding Centric Bank from its inception, through multiple seasons of national crisis, to eclipsing the $1 billion asset threshold,"