ROANOKE, Va. -- After 36 years Member One Federal Credit Union CEO Dick Williams is retiring.
As the credit union's first CEO, Williams has helped the credit union, then called Norfolk & Western CU, grow from $2.8 million in assets serving 1,500 members to $355 million in assets serving some 52,500 members. In addition, the credit union staff has grown from six to 180 and branch locations now number 15.
In an interview with The Roanoke Times, Williams says Member One FCU was the first credit union in Virginia to offer checking accounts in 1978. Since then the credit union has continued to focus on finding innovative ways to best serve its members needs from offering online banking and member business loans to expanding financial literacy efforts to include opening student-run branches in three area high schools.
--mdigiovanni@cutimes.com
