Employees Make Moves at 7 Credit Unions

This past week, seven credit unions announced new hires and promotions, including Chartway Federal Credit Union, which welcomed four new professionals to its leadership team. Check out the latest People news here.

WEST

The $18.6 billion Boeing Employees Credit Union in Tukwila, Wash., hired Henry Darakhovskiy as vice president of treasury. With more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry, Darakhovskiy brings a wealth of knowledge to the credit union and its members. He joins BECU from Flagstar Bank in Bellevue, Wash., where he served as SVP of balance sheet risk management, treasury.

EAST

The $988 million St. Mary’s Bank in Manchester, N.H., welcomed Diane Fitzpatrick as its newest board member. Fitzpatrick was elected to a three-year term on the board of directors. With more than 15 years in higher education, marketing and business development, Fitzpatrick currently serves as the CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Manchester. Her key role is creating, communicating, implementing and sustaining strategic initiatives.

The $578 million Align Credit Union in Lowell, Mass., promoted Sarah Tavares as a mortgage originator. She is based out of the Lowell office at 87 Hale St. and serves Align’s members in the greater Lowell area. Tavares is focused on expediting mortgage preapprovals and processing purchase and refinance mortgage applications. She joined Align as a call center representative and was previously a teller manager at Citizens Bank.

MIDWEST

The $2.6 billion United Federal Credit Union based in St. Joseph, Mich., appointed William Powers to mortgage advisor at its South Bend, Ind., branch located at West Ireland Road. Powers will use his previous finance experience to provide comprehensive real estate lending expertise to members through financial counseling and awareness of UFCU mortgage products. Prior to this position, Powers served as assistant branch manager at the credit union’s Niles, Mich., location since 2017.

SOUTH

The $200 million JetStream Federal Credit Union in Miami Lakes, Fla., announced two employee moves.

Luis Ferrer was named assistant vice president of member solutions. He will be responsible for providing leadership and coaching to the JetStream Member Solutions team in the areas of risk, loan loss management and delinquency. Ferrer previously worked as a director of consumer loans and collections. He is known for his ability to restructure collection initiatives through strategic planning and technological innovation.

Ileana Izquierdo was named assistant vice president of lending. She will have the primary responsibility of assisting the vice president/chief lending officer with strategic lending growth, while improving efficiencies within both the consumer and business lending departments. Izquierdo joined the JetStream team in 2016 as the manager of consumer lending. With more than 30 years of financial industry experience, she has proven to be a vital asset to the Jetstream family.

The $1 billion SAFE Federal Credit Union in Sumter, S.C., announced Elizabeth Duquette will oversee the credit union’s member service center. Duquette originally joined SAFE as branch manager at SAFE’s office in Bishopville. She spent 2017 as an assistant in the executive office before moving into her new role. Duquette has 12 years of financial services experience. Her experience will be key to improve efficiencies in a department that already handles more than 30,000 phone calls and electronic messages per month as SAFE continues to grow.

The $2.1 billion Chartway Federal Credit Union in Virginia Beach, Va., welcomed four new leaders to its leadership team.

John Sapp was hired as vice president of business and risk analytics. Sapp came to Chartway with nearly 15 years of business management experience. He most recently served as vice president, senior business manager for Capital One. As vice president of business and risk analytics, Sapp will be responsible for business and credit risk analysis to refine and improve business and credit strategies, and sustainable growth objectives. He will also guide strategies based on analysis and insights across the organization.

Kathryn Saab was hired as director of loss mitigation and fraud. Saab joins Chartway following 17 years of financial experience. Most recently, she led the collections call center at TEMPOE. She previously worked for both Fifth Third Bank and Capital One in a variety of loss mitigation roles. She will be responsible for all aspects of loss mitigation and fraud prevention, including bankruptcies, foreclosures, legal action and garnishments, repossession and remarketing, and fraud monitoring and prevention.

Henry Thompson was hired as director of information technology. Thompson joins Chartway with more than 20 years of experience in information technology. In his role as director of information technology, he will be responsible for the management of both the daily operations and ongoing systems development of Chartway’s technology systems. In addition, Thompson will also manage the credit union’s telecommunications activities.

Rachel Grossi was hired as director of the contact center. Grossi is an experienced leader with more than 20 years of experience in all areas of contact center leadership and operations for organizations including Crescent Bank and Wells Fargo Dealer Services. Grossi’s duties include planning, coordinating and managing Chartway’s enterprise contact centers, including all member interactions by phone, email, chat and online applications.

Please send your People news items to Tahira Hayes at thayes@cutimes.com.