Portrait of Chas Puleo

Digital Banking / Enterprise Sales / Change

BreaktheBarriers

A figure breaking through a stone wall toward mountains — breaking the barriers

FINTECH PROFESSIONAL & WRITER

I work with financial institutions to uncover obstacles, align technology with strategic objectives, and design digital solutions that drive positive business outcomes.

I'm also the creator and writer for Run The Hills, a personal passion project where I write about facing life's toughest challenges head-on, embracing discomfort, and doing the hard things that create real personal transformation.

SELECTED PERSPECTIVES

3 pieces

The Digital Middle — Why good enough may be the most dangerous place in digital banking

DIGITAL BANKING / SEPTEMBER 2026

The Digital Middle

Why “good enough” may be the most dangerous place in digital banking. The space between digital survival and true digital advantage can look successful while quietly keeping an institution from moving forward.

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01 / FinTech Perspectives

FINTECH PERSPECTIVES

Essays and observations on digital transformation, growth strategy, and the forces shaping the future of financial institutions.

02 / A PHILOSOPHY & MINDSET

RUN THE HILLS

Pay attention to what you keep avoiding.

A traveler with a backpack standing on a rocky ledge, looking toward distant mountains — the climb ahead

Fear. Resistance. Doubt. Discomfort. The conversation you keep postponing. The idea you cannot let go of. The challenge that keeps following you.

Sometimes resistance is not telling you to turn around. It is showing you where to go.

RUN THE HILLS started as a personal rally cry and evolved into a broader philosophy: the things we resist most often point toward the work we need to do, the challenges we need to face, and the person we need to become.

The writing and frameworks shared here are drawn from real experience... running, marriage, parenthood, personal adversity, enterprise sales, creativity, leadership, and the pursuit of meaningful goals.

RUN THE HILLS is a body of writing about identifying the hills that matter, breaking the cages that keep us from them, and moving toward the person waiting on the other side.

This is not a philosophy built from the summit.
It was built from the climb.

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