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The $311 million Belvoir Federal Credit Union in Woodbridge, Va., named George Ksenics as its new chief information officer and Karyn Burke as its new director of human resources. Ksenics has nearly 25 years of information technology experience including 13 years in financial services. Burke is a graduate of the Western CUNA Management School and has nearly 20 years of management experience and 10 years of credit union experience.

The $1.2 billion Founders Federal Credit Union in Lancaster, S.C., hired Elizabeth Bagwell as vice president of internal audits. She is a CPA and most recently was senior manager of internal audits for Resolute Forest Products.

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The $1.7 billion Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union in St. Paul, Minn., honored Debbie Bruns as a Credit Union Builder through the Minnesota Credit Union Foundation. Bruns plans to retire in April after more than 20 years of credit union service in Grand Rapids, Minn. She served as branch director there for seven years and is credited with completing Affinity Plus's first loan in the Grand Rapids market, which took place in a bowling alley.The $1.6 billion United Federal Credit Union in St. Joseph, Mich., promoted Mike Kambol to vice president of risk management. He had been director of risk and compliance and prior to that was chief financial officer at Notre Dame Federal Credit Union and had served in accounting positions at Teachers Credit Union, both in South Bend, Ind. UFCU also promoted Jeff Blake to director of compensation and benefits. He had been manager of compensation and benefits and had previously worked for Wright-Patt Credit Union in Fairborn, Ohio. Also at UFCU, Meg Johnson was named director of collections and loss prevention. She had been collections manager.The $392 million Financial Center Federal Credit Union in Indianapolis promoted Jo Kiel to SVP for human resources, facilities and operational support. She has worked in financial services for 25 years, 20 of those with Financial Center. Financial Center also promoted Gina Johnson to director of human resources. She has been with the credit union for more than eight years, most recently as district retail sales manager in the main office.

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The $2.3 billion Redwood Credit Union in Santa Rosa, Calif., named Lindsay Jones as branch manager of its Napa office. She has been with RCU for nine years, including the past four as Point Arena Branch manager. RCU also hired Meg Cadiz as its new nonprofit community program manager. She has more than 12 years' experience working for local nonprofits, serving most recently as director of development for Lifehouse in San Rafael, Calif.

The $242 million CU Hawaii Federal Credit Union in Hilo hired James Takamine as its EVP. Takamine had been president/CEO of the $386 million Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union in Kailua-Kona. Takamine also has worked at American Savings Bank, First Hawaiian Bank, M&T Bank Corp. and the New York Stock Exchange

VENDORS

Card Services for Credit Unions in Tampa, Fla., appointed Vicki Hawkins, president/CEO of the $57 million Dort Federal Credit Union in Flint, Mich., to its board of directors. Hawkins has been with Dort for 28 years.

John Best, former chief technology officer and SVP at Wescom Resources Group, has launched a credit union consultancy named Best Innovation Group. BIG will help credit unions apply innovative technologies and create business partnerships, including with CUWallet and WRG, the technology CUSO of the $2.5 billion Wescom Credit Union in Pasadena, Calif.