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Beth Hale BECU ($29.1 billion, Tukwila, Wash.) hired Beth Hale as EVP and chief consumer and business solutions officer. In her new role, Hale will lead the teams accountable for creating and managing products and services across all BECU lines of business. She brings an extensive background in consumer retail banking, including senior roles at Washington Mutual and Bank of the West. Most recently, she served as the president and vice chair of USAA Savings Bank. Hale also served on the board of directors of YMCA of Southern Nevada over the past four years.
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Kate Moyer Kate Moyer, content and communications writer and press contact for the $8.1 billion, Harrisburg, Pa.-based PSECU, was named to Pennsylvania Business Central's 2023 Foremost Under 40 list. Moyer joined PSECU in 2021 and specializes in public relations, crisis communications and corporate communication strategy. She serves on PSECU's Governance, Communications, and Employee Resource Group (ERG) committee, and in 2022, she founded the first ERG at PSECU, RISE (Reach, Inspire, Share, and Empower). Moyer is currently a board member and development committee chair for Open Stage of Harrisburg and serves on the Fundraising Committee for LEAF Project PA. She previously held board positions with Friends of Midtown, Friends of Fort Hunter, Downtown Daily Bread, Shalom House and York Young Professionals. In 2022, she founded the women-only book club Capital Reader's Society.
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Jill Kase The $942 million, Austin-based Greater Texas|Aggieland Credit Union hired Jill Kase as assistant vice president of digital experience. Kase brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry supporting banks and credit unions, including substantial experience with Greater Texas|Aggieland's new core system, Fiserv DNA. In her new role, she will manage the credit union's digital experience team, which collaborates with all lines of the credit union's business to develop new products, improve operational efficiency, and aid with training to improve employees' and members' digital experience.
VENDORS
Tom Shen The Portland, Ore.-based Tyfone, a provider of consumer and commercial digital banking services for community financial institutions, announced three board appointments.
Tom Shen was appointed to the board of directors. Shen has nearly 40 years of experience in fintech entrepreneurship and is an advisor for several leading financial institutions and fintech providers. He founded Software Dynamics Inc. in 1982 and sold the company to S1 Corporation in 2001. He also co-founded and since then has served on the executive team for Digital Insight, as well as co-founded Malauzai Software Inc. in 2010, which was acquired by Finastra in 2018. Currently, Shen serves on the board of several companies, including CSI, BankiFi and Shastic. He also serves on the board of Axiom Bank.
Santo Cannone Santo Cannone was appointed to the board of directors. Cannone has more than four decades of experience in financial technology and is currently a strategic advisor for Demopolis Equity Partners. Previously, he held a leadership role at FIS as well as a chief product officer role for Fiserv. He currently serves as board chair at Tampa Bay Wave, and as a board member at United Solutions and Simply Reliable.
Laurent Desmangles was appointed to the board of directors. Desmangles brings a broad knowledge of the financial services industry, regional banking and the fintech sector along with expertise in corporate strategy, digital and analytics innovation.
Laurent Desmangles He spent nearly 30 years advising banks as a consultant, and most recently retired from Boston Consulting Group as a managing director and senior partner in New York. Desmangles also serves as a director on the board for Fifth Third Bank as well as on the board of Laurentian Bank of Canada.
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Natasha Chilingerian
Natasha Chilingerian has been immersed in the credit union industry for over a decade. She first joined CU Times in 2011 as a freelance writer, and following a two-year hiatus from 2013-2015, during which time she served as a communications specialist for Xceed Financial Credit Union (now Kinecta Federal Credit Union), she re-joined the CU Times team full-time as managing editor. She was promoted to executive editor in 2019. In the earlier days of her career, Chilingerian focused on news and lifestyle journalism, serving as a writer and editor for numerous regional publications in Oregon, Louisiana, South Carolina and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, she holds experience in marketing copywriting for companies in the finance and technology space. At CU Times, she covers People and Community news, cybersecurity, fintech partnerships, marketing, workplace culture, leadership, DEI, branch strategies, digital banking and more. She currently works remotely and splits her time between Southern California and Portland, Ore.
