WASHINGTON.— The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has named the newest members of its Credit Union Advisory Council, along with the new members of three other of its councils.
One CU executive has also been named to the CFPB’s Consumer Advisory Board.
The new members of the CUAC include:
- Chad LaFlash, AVP research and product strategy with University of Wisconsin Credit Union, Madison
- Floyd Rummel, III, CEO of Northern Hills FCU, Sturgis, S.D.
- Suzanne Weinstein, president & CEO, Orlando Credit Union, Florida
- Shawn Wolbert, president and CEO, GHS FCU, Binghamton, N.Y.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act charges the CFPB with establishing a Consumer Advisory Board to provide advice on a variety of consumer finance issues. Members of the Consumer Advisory Board represent the various districts of the Federal Reserve System. Each member appointed to the Consumer Advisory Board was recommended by a president of a Federal Reserve Bank, the CFPB stated.
Members of the advisory boards and councils do not receive a salary, nor are they eligible to officially represent the CFPB or the Federal Reserve System.
Other new Advisory Council members include:
Consumer Advisory Board
- Sol Anderson, president & CEO, Evanston Community Foundation, Evanston, Ill. (7th District – Chicago)
- Watchen Harris Bruce, president & CEO, Baltimore Community Lending, Inc. (5th District – Richmond)
- Jorge Cruz, executive cirector-Greater Newark Office, Local Initiatives Support Corp., Newark, N.J. (2nd District - New York
- Muneer Karcher-Ramos, director, Office of Financial Empowerment, City of Saint Paul (9th District – Minneapolis)
- Annika Korling Little, managing director, Asset Funders Network, Chicago (11th District – Dallas)
- Sarah B. Mancini, staff attorney, National Consumer Law Center Atlanta (6th District – Atlanta)
- Markita Morris-Louis, CEO, Compass Working Capital, Philadelphia (3rd District – Philadelphia)
- Sarah Dieleman Perry, Director of Economic Opportunity, Neighborhood Allies, Pittsburgh (4th District – Cleveland)
- Rebecca Regan, CEO, Capital Link, Boston, 1st District – Boston
- Tyrone Roderick Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Fresno Housing Authority, Fresno, Calif. (12th District - San Francisco)
- Paul Woodruff, VP-community development, St. Louis Community Credit Union (8th District - St. Louis)
Community Bank Advisory Council
- Anita Drentlaw, CEO/president/CFO, New Market Bank (Elko New Market, MN)
- Bruce A. Hoyer, CEO, Belt Valley Bank, (Belt, MT)
- Carlos P. Naudon, president & CEO, Ponce Bank and Ponce Financial Group, Inc. (Bronx, N.Y.)
- Ignacio Urrabazo, Jr., President, Commerce Bank (Laredo, Texas)
Academic Research Council
- Fenaba Rena Addo, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Itzhak Ben-David, Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) and National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.)
- P. Dean Corbae, William Sellery Truckenbrod Chair in Finance and Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Benjamin J. Keys, Rowan Family Foundation Professor, Professor of Real Estate, Professor of Finance, The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Philadelphia