About Ken
Ken North
Retired president of Seattle Savings Bank. Ken founded the bank in 1998 for the Smith and Story families of Seattle Mortgage Company. By the end of his tenure, Seattle Savings Bank was the top earning bank of its size in the country. Until August 2021, Ken raised money from angel investors for Kineta, Inc., an emerging biotechnology company in Seattle developing new drugs to fight chronic pain, cancer and viruses. Today, Ken is enjoying retirement!
Family History
North Family Crest
Virtue is only noble with soul and faith.
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My Favorite Things
Ken enjoys hanging out in the back yard with the five grand children in the pool. For Ken and wife Sadhia, retirement is getting closer. Both look forward to more traveling around the globe.
Ken also enjoys NASCAR and other motor sports. Sadhia treated Ken to a drive around the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in an unrestricted NASCAR. Ken had the fastest average speed of the day at 145MPH.
Ken grew up playing baseball as a kid and softball as an adult. Ken and Sadhia met playing shortstop and second base, respectively for the Washington Federal Team. Here are highlights from Ken's time playing ball.
A long time sports fan and season ticket holder for both the Seattle Seahawks and the Everett Silvertips, Ken won the Budweiser Fantasy Play-By-Play. Watch it here.
Ken appeared in the audience at an Oprah show while attending a Banking Conference in Chicago. Ken came in second place nationwide in the banker's speech contest.