
Eight new CEOs – including four women – were recently hired to lead credit unions in Louisiana, Washington, Texas, California, Oregon and Maine.
The $860 million iQ Credit Union in Vancouver, Wash., announced that Kelly Schrader was appointed its president/CEO.
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Schrader will succeed Roger Michaelis who plans a June 1 retirement after 31 years of service.
Schrader joined iQ from the $4 billion OnPoint Community Credit Union in Portland, Ore.
She served as OnPoint's SVP/chief operations and risk officer.
With 26 years of credit union experience, she has worked in the areas of consumer, business and residential lending, operations, member services and marketing.
Sonya Jarvis, a former examiner who became a banker, was named president/CEO of the $319 million ASI Federal Credit Union in Harahan, La.
She will succeed Mignhon Tourne who plans to retire later this year. Tourne served as CEO for nine years.
Jarvis served as an NCUA examiner in the New Orleans area from 2004 to 2007. Prior to that, she worked as an examiner from 2001 to 2004 for the Louisiana Office of Financial Institutions where she helped re-establish credit union access in New Orleans neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
She left her job with the NCUA to become chief operating officer and chief risk officer for Business First Bank. As part of the executive team for eight years, she helped the bank grow its assets from $700 million to more than $1 billion and expanded the bank's branch network by 11.
Rebecca McCoy was appointed president/CEO of the $243 million America's Credit Union in Garland, Texas.
She succeeded Joe Wasaff who retired after 25 years of service.
McCoy joined ACU in 2009 as senior vice president of strategic development. She previously worked for many years at the New Jersey Credit Union League and the former Texas Credit Union League.
In addition, for 23 years she owned and operated a consulting firm that served credit unions throughout the nation.
Roy MacKinnon was named president/CEO of the $180 million Edwards Federal Credit Union in Lancaster, Calif.
He succeeded Stan Turner who retired on April 30.
From 1990 to 2015, MacKinnon served as vice president of marketing at First Entertainment Credit Union in Hollywood. He helped the credit union grow from $73 million in assets, two branches and 22,000 members to $1.2 billion in assets, 10 branches and more than 70,000 members. MacKinnon also owned and operated a Los Angeles-based marketing and branding firm before joining Edwards.
Edgar Barraza was named president/CEO of the $113 million California Bear Credit Union in Los Angeles.
He replaced Marla Shepard.
Barraza most recently served as senior vice president/chief financial officer at the $368 million LA Financial Federal Credit Union in Pasadena.
Pat Force was appointed president/CEO of the $69.7 million Valley Credit Union in Salem, Ore.
He replaced Linda Pastorino.
Force most recently served as the chief financial officer for the $1 billion Northwest Community Credit Union in Eugene Ore., where he worked for 26 years.
In addition to his bachelor's and MBA degrees, he attended the CUES CEO School where he received the Certified Chief Executive designation.
The $68.8 million First Abilene Federal Credit Union board of directors named Troy Kyle as its new president/CEO.
He succeeded Faye Smith who retired from the Abilene, Texas-based credit union on March 31.
With more than 16 years of senior executive experience in the credit union industry, Kyle most recently served as vice president of the $312 million Public Employees Credit Union in Austin, Texas. Prior to that position, he was a senior vice president at the $124 million Capitol Federal Credit Union in Austin where he worked as a key strategist in its net worth management recovery and implemented technologies that simplified member services.
Jennifer Hogan was appointed president/CEO of the $47.7 million Community Credit Union in Lewiston, Maine.
She replaced Kerry A. Wood.
Hogan was named the interim president/CEO last fall.
She joined the credit union in 2007 as the marketing/business development director. In 2012, Hogan was promoted to executive vice president.
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