Advisory Board Flipbook 6.0 - Flipbook - Page 7
OUR FOUNDERS
Sarah Valentini, Co-Founder
Keith Polaski, Co-Founder
There's no doubt that leading one of the
areas top woman-lead business is ambitious.
But what truly drives Sarah is not a plaque
on the wall or reaching the top of the
corporate ladder. It’s meeting others’ needs.
Drawing from his military background,
it was Keith who established the radius
standard-shattering processing and
underwriting goals by asking seasoned
underwriters how quickly a quality
loan can be completed, rather than
following the laissez-faire approach of
most lending institutions.
As a child, she watched her mother use
entrepreneurship as outreach. Whether the
need was employment, friendship or a good
example, she saw how owning your own
business could be used to meet it.
Today, she has created a person-centric
culture which embodies her vision of what
mortgage lending should be.
In Keith’s view, radius should set such
a high standard that employees of any
industry are drawn to the workplace
culture and the high service level so
that competitors are compelled to
improve their own.
