“The harder I work, the luckier I get,” said Matt Vance, marketing and community manager at Bellingham,Wash.-based Industrial Credit Union. He has lived by those wordssince hearing them during an open session at a Crash event hehelped coordinate for Mountain West Credit Union Association

“Mike Williams, CEO of Colorado Credit Union and board chair ofthe association, said it about the industry's future, and I thinkit's been true for me. You do get lucky for a reason. And it comesdown to hard work.”

Vance knows a little something about luck considering hisintroduction to credit unions via an internship with the WashingtonCredit Union League (now Northwest Credit Union Association) beganin a chance bar conversation about the industry with its publicrelations director.

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