East

The $183 million Aspire Federal Credit Union in Clark,N.J., hired Joseph Riccardo as its first chief informationofficer. Riccardo's hiring follows the credit union's decision toconvert to the Corelation KeyStone core processing platform nextyear, Aspire said. Riccardo has more than 30 years of financial andtechnology experience, including serving as a product lineexecutive for Fiserv Advantage, Aspire's current coreprocessor.

The $135 million GHS Federal Credit Union in Binghamton,N.Y., promoted Christine Cresci to assistant branch managerat the Norwich Branch. Cresci joined GHS in 2012 as a memberservice supervisor for the Norwich Branch.

The $187 million First Financial Federal Credit Union inWall, N.J., promoted Matthew Brazinski to businessdevelopment manager. He joined the credit union in 2013 as branchmanager for the Howell and Freehold locations.

South

The $315 million NSWC Federal Credit Union in Dahlgren,Va., hired Bruce Six as its new CEO. Six has 24 years ofcredit union experience, most recently as chief investment officerat Mid-Atlantic Corporate Federal Credit Union in Middletown, Pa.,and before that at Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union inHarrisburg, Pa.

The $413 million First Florida Credit Union inJacksonville, Fla., promoted Debbie Pelletier to branchmanager of its Northside Branch in Tallahassee, Fla. Pelletier has28 years of industry experience, including the past 12 at FirstFlorida, most recently as a loan officer at the Tallahassee BlairStone Branch.

The $444 million BrightStar Credit Union in Sunrise Fla.,named Greg Cassamajor as branch manager of its Pompano BeachBranch. He was previously assistant vice president at TD Bank inLauderhill.

MidWest

The $532 million Centris Federal Credit Union in Omaha,Neb., named Steve Swanstrom its new president/CEO. Swanstromjoined Centris in 2009 as vice president and director of mortgageservices and was promoted in 2012 to SVP of retail financialservices. He also worked for several regional and community banksafter beginning his career as a teller.

The $2.6 billion Michigan State University Federal CreditUnion in East Lansing, Mich., promoted Samantha Amburgeyto chief information officer and Dennis Dorogi to vicepresident of remote services. Amburgey has been with MSUFCU since2004, most recently as SVP of remote services. Dorogi has been withMSUFCU since 2008, most recently as assistant vice president ofremote services. MSUFCU also promoted Brian Grapentien tofacilities operations assistant manager and Kyle Wright toconsumer loans operations assistant manager. Grapentien joinedMSUFCU in 2013 and had been a facilities maintenance specialist.Wright was hired in 2012 and most recently was a financial servicesrepresentative.

The $202 million Illiana Financial Credit Union inCalumet City, Ill., promoted Sonia Gomez to human resourcecoordinator and administrative assistant. She had joined the creditunion in 2013 as a member service representative.

West

The $1.3 billion Westerra Credit Union in Denver namedJohn McCloy to succeed C. Alan Peppers aspresident/CEO. Peppers becomes emeritus president/CEO effective onJuly 1, 2014, and plans to retire on July 1, 2015. Peppers beganhis credit union career in 1976 with Municipal Credit Union ofDenver and became Westerra's CEO in 1992. He has held leadershippositions with CUNA Mutual, CUNA, the World Council of CreditUnions, the National Credit Union Foundation and Mountain WestCredit Union Association. McCloy has been with Westerra for 11years, most recently as chief credit and administrativeofficer.

The $474 million Greater Nevada Credit Union in CarsonCity, Nev., promoted Marcus Wertz to vice president ofconsumer lending. He began his career at Greater Nevada in 2002 asa loan servicing manager and has also served as a senior loanofficer, consumer lending manager and dealer sales manager. He is agraduate of Western CUNA Management School and is a member of theCUNA Lending Council.

The $4 billion Ent Federal Credit Union in ColoradoSprings, Colo., promoted Victoria Selfridge to vicepresident of corporate communications. Selfridge has been with Entsince 1999 and had served as Ent's director of marketing since2007. Ent also promoted Joseph Nelson to loan portfolioanalyst. Nelson has 15 years of financial services experience, mostrecently as a lending specialist at Ent's Stetson Hills ServiceCenter.