Brian Daskalovitz may say he wasn't the best student back in his school days, but today he's probably one of the credit union industry's biggest self-starters who isn't afraid to do a little research.
Daskalovitz, winner of CU Times' 2017 Trailblazer award for CFO of the Year, oversees the financial management and strategic direction of the Fairfax, Va.-based Fairfax County Federal Credit Union, which has $408 million in assets and about 16,000 members.
Growing a credit union requires a certain amount of drive — something Daskalovitz was demonstrating back in college despite having what he called a "pretty low GPA but good enough to get by." Notably, he accidentally missed internship-recruiting day at Towson University in Maryland, where he graduated with an accounting degree in 2005.
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