Credit Unions in California, Oregon, Virginia, Kentucky and NewYork recently named new CEOs.

Gary Rodrigues was promoted to president/CEO of the $9.5 billionStar One Credit Union in Sunnyvale, California's fourth largestcredit union by assets.

He succeeded Rick Heldebrant who retired.

Rodrigues brings more than 33 years of banking experience to theleadership positon. He previously served as executive vicepresident at Star One overseeing finance, administration, andoperations. He joined the credit union in 1991 when he was namedvice president of lending.

At the Oregon Community Credit Union in Eugene, Executive VicePresident Ron Neumann will succeed current President/CEO MandyJones who will retire on April 6.

“We envisioned OCCU in 2025 and asked ourselves what skills andqualities would be needed to achieve that vision,” said BeverlyAnderson, who chairs OCCU board of directors, “Then we watched Rondemonstrate his leadership abilities. It became increasingly clearthat he had exactly what we needed. Ron has the vision, talent,enthusiasm and leadership to take OCCU into the future.”

Under Jones' 12 years of executive leadership, OCCU grew itsassets from $730 million to its current assets of $1.6 billion,while its membership increased from 93,000 to more than146,000.

OCCU is Oregon's second largest credit union by assets.

The $917 million Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Unionappointed Ed Hada president/CEO.

He succeeded Mike Padgett who retired in 2017 after 31 years ofservice.

Hada previously served for more than 10 years as senior vicepresident/chief finance officer, finance and administration atLAPFCU.

Before joining the credit union, Hada served seven years at theformer Western Corporate Federal Credit Union where he worked asvice president of financial consulting services. He also served asWesCorp's vice president of investment operations for threeyears.

“Ed comes to this position with outstanding credentials. He wasresponsible in great part for helping the credit union to maintainfinancial stability during the extended recession,” said LorieTaylor, who chairs LAPFCU's board of directors. “Additionally, overrecent years, we have seen great strides in our efforts to bringtechnological enhancements to members. Again, Ed led the team thatis responsible for those achievements.”

Sean Zimmermann was named president/CEO of the $903 millionCongressional Federal Credit Union in Oakton, Va.

He replaced Congressional FCU's CFO Tony Caccese who served asinterim president/CEO for a year.

Zimmermann previously worked at the $4.6 billion Bank Fund-StaffFederal Credit Union in Washington, D.C., where he served as CFOfor two years. For more than two decades, he also worked for the$2.9 billion Tower Federal Credit Union in Laurel, Md., where heheld a number of executive positions.

The $157 million Service One Credit Union in Bowling Green, Ky.,named Rebecca S. Stone as president/CEO.

She succeeded the retired Garth Griese.

Stone joined the credit union in 2016 and served as its COO. Shepreviously worked as the chief funding officer for Kleberg Bank inCorpus Christi, Texas.

In Niagara Falls, N.Y., the $178 million Niagara's Choice CreditUnion appointed Daniel Keleher as its president/CEO.

He succeeded Alfred Frosolone who retired.