The $694 million Ideal Credit Union in Woodbury, Mont., promoted Shannon Butler (pictured) to vice president of digital innovation. Butler joined the Ideal team in 2000 and has served as a teller, member service representative, marketing coordinator, e-marketing specialist and contact center manager. Prior to her promotion, she served as director of the contact center and E-Banking. She has 17 years of experience in the financial services industry.

The $1.7 billion Oregon Community Credit Union in Eugene, Ore., announced president/CEO Mandy Jones is retiring on April 6, 2018, after 12 years as president/CEO and 17 years with OCCU. She became OCCU's CEO in 2006. Under her leadership, the credit union grew from $730 million to $1.7 billion in assets and membership expanded 61% from 93,000 to more than 150,000.

Ron Neumann will succeed Jones as president/CEO on April 2, 2018. Nuemann is currently OCCU's EVP. He's been with OCCU since 2010. As EVP, he presently oversees lending and lending services, credit and production services, finance, technology, business intelligence and administrative functions, including compliance, risk management, security, continuous process improvement and facilities.

The $2 billion Numerica Credit Union in Spokane, Wash., announced four staff changes.

Jay Rivera (pictured) was hired as business services relationship officer. Rivera brings more than 23 years of experience in providing expert level care by delivering lending and portfolio management solutions to businesses.

Kelly Crawley is now the manager of Numerica's Wandermere branch. She has been in the finance industry for than 18 years, 14 of those years at Numerica and most recently the branch manager at the Airway Heights branch. David Gass (pictured) was hired as external sales manager. He has more than 15 years of experience in the finance industry.

Dustin Masterson was hired as external home loan officer. He was most recently at Umpqua Bank where he was a mortgage loan officer.

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The $3.2 billion Service Credit Union in Portsmouth, N.H., appointed Wendy Bryant-Beswick vice president of marketing. Bryant-Beswick is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of marketing management experience. She will oversee the planning and execution of marketing initiatives including positioning, brand oversight, acquisition, communications, public relations and business development.

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The $541 million Crane Credit Union in Odon, Ind., promoted Kim Miller to assistant vice president of lending. Miller has 29 years of financial industry experience. She has worked at Crane for the past 16 years. Miller was previously the assistant manager at the Linton branch. She was promoted to mortgage department manager in 2009.

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The $1.4 billion Fort Knox Federal Credit Union in Radcliff, Ky., hired Eldon Tilley as vice president of marketing. Tilley provides oversight for brand, marketing and public relation functions. Prior to joining Fort Knox Federal, he gained 15 years of experience in retail banking with the majority of that time spent in credit unions. He previously served as the vice president of marketing for the $1.4 billion Whitefish Credit Union in Montana and as director of marketing for the $277 million East Idaho Credit Union and Scenic Falls Federal Credit Union.

The $903 million Congressional Federal Credit Union in Oakton, Va., appointed Sean Zimmermann to president/CEO.

Zimmermann has more than 25 years of credit union and finance experience. He comes to the credit union from the $4.6 billion Bank Fund-Staff Federal Credit Union where he served as CFO for two years. Prior to his time at Bank Fund-Staff, Zimmermann worked at the $3 billion Tower Federal Credit Union for more than 20 years in a number of positions, including vice president of finance and SVP of operations and technology.

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