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Cheney Named CUNA President/CEO 
5/5/2010 

 

California-Nevada Credit Union League President Bill Cheney was named the president/CEO of CUNA today.

Cheney, will succeed Dan Mica who has run CUNA since 1996, he has run the league since March 2006 and before that was president/CEO of Xerox Federal Credit Union and was executive vice president of Security Service Federal Credit Union. He was on the board of U.S. Central Corporate Federal Credit Union at the time of its conservatorship and was on the board of Western Corporate Federal Credit Union from 1999-2005.

Cheney, who will begin his new job on July 5, also has familiarity with the operations of rival trade group NAFCU, having been an at-large director and board treasurer.

“I am honored that the CUNA Board has the confidence in me as their selection for this position, given the very extensive search that was conducted by the committee,” Cheney said in a statement. “I am ready for the challenge and excited about the opportunity. Dan Mica has built a great team and I look forward to leading it in continued pursuit of critical credit union goals.”

He earned his Bachelor’s of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

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    • 5/5/2010 2:57:54 PM
    • Matt Vance
    • Whatever Happened to Cooperation
    • The use of the term "rival" in your article is disappointing. It speaks to the sad state of our key guiding principles, cooperation amongst cooperatives. All too often we continue to find the lines between cooperative and competition being blurred.
    • 5/5/2010 3:13:35 PM
    • Sarah Snell Cooke
    • Re: Cooperation
    • I don't believe ANYONE could argue that CUNA and NAFCU aren't, at least at times, rivals. And competition is not evil. It's better for the members, whether CU trades or credit unions, in the long run if handled gracefully. A credit union trade or credit unions' first responsibility is to its members.
    • 5/5/2010 3:29:14 PM
    • Brent Dixon
    • Coopetition
    • This is a conversation over the reality we find ourselves in vs. the reality we'd like to be in. More cooperation and collaboration across the industry is, I think, key to its survival. But currently credit unions rivaling credit unions and trade associations rivaling trade associations are the fact of the matter. Benefits of rivalry: Competition breeds innovation and so adds value. Suck of rivalry: Competition breeds system politics and bureaucratic barbed wire that often chokes out said innovation-and-added-value. Cheney's goal of finding "one voice" is a move in the right direction. Just please promise, Bill, not to do anything like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qAuqq1LFnU
    • 5/5/2010 3:33:14 PM
    • Sarah Snell Cooke
    • Re:Coopetition
    • Ew, Brent. I had to stop it. I couldn't take it. Who thought that was a good idea?

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