Credit Unions Hire & Promote Across the Nation

WEST

The $12.9 billion, Sandy, Utah-based Mountain America Credit Union promoted Amy Moser to chief lending officer. Moser joined Mountain America in 1997 as a member service representative and quickly advanced to the loan team. Over the past 24 years, she’s been involved in all aspects of lending, including mortgage, consumer, commercial and business, and has served as vice president of mortgage services since 2012.

EAST

The $5.2 billion Visions Federal Credit Union in Endwell, N.Y., hired Stephen Kimball as business development officer for Ithaca, N.Y., and the surrounding region. Kimball brings nearly 25 years of experience working in Ithaca and Tompkins County, including positions at Tompkins County Area Development (now IAED), The State Theater, Vizella Media, Tetra Tech Architects & Engineers and Finger Lakes Wine Country. He also serves as vice president of the board of directors of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca.

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The $3.6 billion Corporate Central Credit Union in Muskego, Wis., hired Adilet Momunaliev as a software engineer. In this role, Momunaliev will create, code, test, debug, maintain and troubleshoot complex applications to meet business requirements, and design and develop business intelligence systems and database systems. He has over three years of software engineering experience.

The $1.1 billion Cobalt Credit Union in Papillion, Neb., hired Matt Bartos as director of information technology. Bartos has over 20 years of IT experience with multiple related certifications; has spent over 15 years leading and mentoring IT professionals, specifically in the military and as a Department of Defense contractor; and most recently, worked as a principal systems engineer for an engineering consulting company.

The $1.5 billion, Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Consumers Credit Union hired Greg Wierenga as a mortgage loan officer in the Grand Rapids, Mich., market. Wierenga has over four years of experience as a mortgage loan officer and will be based out of Consumers’ Cascade office in Grand Rapids.

The $5.4 billion, Waterloo, Iowa-based Veridian Credit Union hired three new employees and promoted two others.

Kim Freeborn was hired as an indirect loan officer. Freeborn was most recently the finance manager at Ramsey Subaru of Des Moines, Iowa.

Amy Carter was hired as an agent associate for Veridian Insurance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Veridian Group, which is a wholly-owned CUSO of Veridian CU. Carter was previously employed at PDCM, Inc. as a commercial lines account manager. She is actively involved on the board for the Exchange Club of the Cedar Valley in Waterloo as the secretary and chair of fundraising and marketing, and volunteers with Iowa Irish Fest in Waterloo as the outreach and parade chair.

Steve Brown was hired as an agent associate for Veridian Insurance. Brown was previously employed at Lincoln Savings Bank as an account manager.

Heather Thein was promoted to the position of manager of personnel and recruitment. Thein has worked at Veridian for 11 years and was previously an electronic relations team leader.

Candace Johnson was promoted to the position of business intelligence analyst II. Johnson has worked at Veridian for four years and was previously a business intelligence analyst I.

Gerber Federal Credit Union ($209.9 million, Fremont, Mich.) promoted Katrina Luchies to member solutions manager. Luchies joined the credit union as a member service representative in 2020, and in her new role, she will lead the member solutions department responsible for loss prevention and collection functions.

SOUTH

The $5.5 billion Tinker Federal Credit Union in Oklahoma City, Okla., promoted Connie Wall to EVP and chief administration officer. Wall has over 40 years’ experience in the financial industry, and throughout her career at TFCU has served as a branch manager, card center assistant manager, mortgage lending manager, vice president/director of lending and most recently SVP of lending. In her new role, she will lead and provide strategic direction in support of the credit union’s mission.

The $3.5 billion, Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Truliant Federal Credit Union promoted Jeff Hibbard to SVP of digital experience and business transformation. Hibbard, who most recently served the credit union as vice president of digital innovation, has more than 20 years of digital banking and innovation experience, and joined Truliant in 2018. He oversees digital marketing and deposit administration, design thinking and member journey strategy, and digital transformation of internal credit union processes.

TRADES

CUNA hired Dawit Zenebe as a senior economist. A specialist in development economics, Zenebe brings several years of experience working on trade and industry development, agriculture and small businesses. Prior to joining CUNA, Zenebe was a lead analyst at CUNA Mutual Group, where he built data analytics infrastructure to support data-driven business decisions and provided revenue forecasting for the insurance arm of CUNA Mutual Group. He also served as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he completed his Ph.D.

CUSOS

Benson Porter, president/CEO of the $28.2 billion BECU based in Tukwila, Wash., was elected chairperson of CO-OP Financial Services in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., at a May 20 board of directors meeting. Porter has served as a director of CO-OP since 2012, the same year he became BECU’s president/CEO. In the same board of directors meeting, two other officers of the board were elected: Joan Opp, president/CEO of Stanford Federal Credit Union ($3.5 billion, Palo Alto, Calif.) as vice chairperson and Jackie Buchanan, president/CEO of Genisys Federal Credit Union ($3.7 billion, Auburn Hills, Mich.) as treasurer/secretary. During the preceding annual shareholders meeting, Opp was also reelected to the board along with two other incumbents: Bob Falk, president/CEO of Purdue Federal Credit Union ($1.6 billion, West Lafayette, Ind.) and Wayne Grosse, president/CEO of Bethpage Federal Credit Union ($10.8 billion, Bethpage, N.Y.).

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