Steve Ellis, the head of Wells Fargo’s innovation group, is retiring after more than 30 years with the bank helping the bank advance its online- and mobile-banking presence.
Ellis was not your typical bank executive. When he took himself and his job to Los Angeles from his longtime base in San Francisco in 2014 for what the bank called “personal reasons,” some might have speculated it was for Southern California’s warm breezes, abundant sunshine and better surfing.
