MIDWEST

Fran Sommerfeld (pictured), president/CEOof the $240 million Sioux Falls Federal Credit Union in Sioux Falls, S.D. has been selected to serve as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council. The CDIAC was established in 2010 by the Board of Governors to provide input to the board on the economy, lending conditions and other issues of interest to community depository institutions.

The $1 billion Black Hills Federal Credit Union inRapid City, S.D. announced the selection of Tenise Chapman and Alexis Timmons as recipients of the first Duane Ellingson Passion for Service Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship gives BHFCU employees the opportunity to attend a national credit union-related conference of their choosing. To be selected, applicants must demonstrate leadership, a passion for learning and dedication to the credit union movement. BHFCU established the scholarship in 2015 in remembrance of former President/CEO Duane Ellingson, who passed away in April 2015.

SOUTH

The $2.6 billion Coastal Federal Credit Union in Raleigh, N.C. promoted three managers to vice president roles. Lesley Vaughan (pictured) was promoted to vice president of reporting and analytics. Vaughan is now responsible for leading the development and implementation of a highly scalable, cost effective and relevant reporting platform that helps enable sound business decision making across the organization. In her 25 years with Coastal, she has served in many capacities, most recently as digital banking manager. She played a critical role in directing the digital banking team that led the way for Coastal's successful conversion to its new digital banking platform. Arlene Babwah was promoted to vice president of risk management. Babwah is now responsible for overseeing the risk management profile of Coastal across its vendor, customer and operations environments by identifying risk and developing strategies to minimize the effects to the credit union. In her 10 years with Coastal, Babwah has worked with Coastal's wealth management division as a business operations manager before transferring to Coastal's retail division. She most recently served as risk operations manager.

MaryAnne Gangoy was promoted to vice president of retail sales and service. Gangoy is responsible for directing the sales and service culture in the credit union by assisting the retail sales and service managers in achieving their assigned goals. She has more than 20 years in the financial industry and has served in multiple roles including branch manager, regional retail branch operations manager, retail sales enablement and strategy director, and market manager. 

WEST

Alaska USA Mortgage Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the $6.1 billion Alaska USA Federal Credit Union in Anchorage, Alaska, promoted Colleen Harrington Baer (pictured below) to regional vice president for Alaska, California and Washington. Baer joined Alaska USA in 2000 as manager of special credits and transitioned to mortgage lending in 2003. Most recently, she was the assistant vice president of the West Abbott office. She brings 20 years of finance experience to her position.

VENDORS

Payveris, an electronic payments company providing cloud-based, online and mobile payment services based in Rocky Hill, Conn., hired Mohan Chunduri as senior vice president of operations. Chunduri joins Payveris with more than 30 years of experience in leadership, operational strategy and business development across companies such as Sikorsky Aircraft, Carrier Corp., Metavante (now part of FIS) and CheckFree (now part of Fiserv).

CU Members Mortgage, a Dallas-based company, hired Nita Haas as senior sales consultant to assist credit unions in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain territories. Haas began working for CU Members Mortgage at the end of 2015 and has more than 30 years of credit union lending experience. She will apply her extensive mortgage origination knowledge and credit union background to guiding credit unions to custom mortgage solutions.