Michael Lozoff

• Fire the CEO: When the Time Has Come

  By Robert McGarvey  |  January 9, 2013

  No job is harder for a board of directors of a credit union, but no job is more crucial than knowing when to separate the cooperative from a lagging chief executive officer and having the strength to act.

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  Firing the CEO When Time Has Come: Print Preview

  By Robert McGarvey  |  January 4, 2013

  This provocative topic is the focus of this preview from next week's print edition of Credit Union Times.

• Henriquez Joins Fla. Law Firm

  November 14, 2012

  Shutts & Bowen LLP announced that François Henriquez has joined the firm. Henriquez is the former president/CEO of U.S. Central Credit Union.

• Former U.S. Central Attorney & CEO Joins Miami Firm

  By Heather Anderson  |  November 5, 2012

  Former U.S. Central Bridge Attorney Moves to Florida firm.

• Forces at Work to Lift Veil of Secrecy Around CEO Pay

  By Robert McGarvey  |  October 1, 2012

  The email from a usually voluble credit union executive who had been asked to comment on the secrecy that surrounds compensation of top managers at federally chartered credit unions said, “Too touchy of a subject for me. Sorry.”

• CEO as Treasurer: A Good Idea?

  By Robert McGarvey  |  September 17, 2012

  It may be common–and it certainly is permitted under NCUA rules–but debates are beginning to be heard among some credit union experts when it comes to credit union employees (frequently the CEO) serving on the board of directors as treasurer.

• When the CEO Serves as Treasurer: Print Preview

  By Robert McGarvey  |  September 13, 2012

  Industry experts bat around whether CEO serving as board treasurer is a good idea. Drugs and fraud case is an example. Print story online now.

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  CEO Pay: How Much Is Right?

  By Robert McGarvey  |  August 27, 2012

  Call CEO pay the credit union governance hot potato. “This is certainly an increasingly hot topic,” said attorney Michael Lozoff, chair of the credit union practice at Shutts and Bowen in Miami.

• Board’s Role Is Up For Debate

  By Robert McGarvey  |  August 20, 2012

  Governance questions may not get more visceral – who makes the biggest decisions at a credit union? The question is easy to ask, but for some, it can be bafflingly hard to answer.

• Puzzlement Over NCUA Rebuff of Indemnification

  By Robert McGarvey  |  April 29, 2012

  Now you have it, now you do not. Puzzlement has percolated on the part of some in the industry over the insistence by the NCUA that indemnification and coverage of legal fees incurred by the onetime WesCorp officers it is suing are not owed. That is, the defendants (now down...