It’s hard not to wonder why more bankers wouldn’t leave their big-bank jobs after hearing Ben Wallace’s story. Wallace first worked at First USA, which was acquired by Bank One, and then ultimately became part of JPMorgan Chase. He ended up running the giant bank’s Consumer Technology Group out of Wilmington, Del.—a good job, but requiring a lot of travel—much of it around the world; tough with a young family.
He and his wife had been mulling over a different lifestyle when a recruiter reached out to him about an opportunity at $1.2 billion-assets Orrstown Bank, based in Shippensburg, Pa., near where his wife’s and his parents lived.
