Like he did in college, Kam Kniss has found success, this time in banking. But he didn't take over at Wheaton Bank & Trust in normal times.
These days the former North Central College QB calls the signals as Wheaton Bank & Trust CEO, leading a team of nearly 100 people. Just as he relied on his football teammates in college, Kniss leans on his colleagues in business casual at Wheaton Bank & Trust, a Wintrust bank.
Calling an audible Kniss' leadership skills were put to the test almost as soon as he assumed the Wheaton Bank & Trust job in February 2020. He'd barely had time to introduce himself to his new teammates when the COVID-19 pandemic threw everything into chaos. by signing up you agree to our terms of service Ironically, he didn't gravitate to banking naturally.
"Football itself is the ultimate team game, right?" said Kniss, who was inducted into the North Central College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017."You have to have all 11 guys on the field doing their job. "Anybody that had played quarterback, having followed the '99 Wheaton South Tigers, you knew the Coach Thorne story so you're like, well, obviously, you have to come check it out," Kniss said."So he was a big reason, and then when I came to campus and met my future teammates, I fell in love with the place.
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