Patti Perkins
Patti Perkins
Director
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Patti Perkins has been the director of the Idaho Department of Finance since January 2020. Before joining the department, she ran her workplace management consulting company full time. She has served as the city of Meridian’s HR director and spent ten years with T-Mobile as a human resources director. The bulk of her career, over thirty years, was spent in commercial banking in California and Idaho, where she held various HR roles while working as a private banking relationship officer and senior vice president.
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