Josh Smith brings more than 20 years of sales, relationship management and business development experience to ICI Consulting, including two decades focused on financial services and financial technology. Throughout his career, Josh has worked closely with financial institutions and executive leadership teams to align technology strategy with business goals, strengthen vendor relationships and navigate complex technology and contract decisions.
Prior to joining ICI, Josh spent 15 years with FIS as a Strategic Account Manager serving financial institutions throughout the country. Through his consultative and relationship-driven approach, he became a trusted partner to executive leadership teams, leading strategic planning sessions and annual budget reviews while helping financial institutions evaluate technology initiatives and investments aligned with their long-term goals and objectives.
Most recently, Josh served as Solution Sales Director with Celsior, where he played a key role in building and expanding the company’s banking practice. Drawing on his financial services experience, he helped establish Celsior’s presence in the banking market, created new revenue opportunities, and worked directly with banks and credit unions to address technology modernization, digital banking, payments, core integration, and data transformation initiatives.
Outside of work, Josh and his wife have four daughters and enjoy an active family lifestyle. Much of his free time revolves around sports, family activities and coaching for All Iowa Attack girls club basketball. Josh has a long-standing connection to basketball and enjoys mentoring young athletes and helping them develop confidence, teamwork and leadership both on and off the court.