COLUMBUS, Ga.–Two long-time credit union CEOs have announced retirement plans.
After four decades in financial services, Janet Davis, CEO of Kinetic Credit Union here, has said she will retire at the end of January 2018.
Davis started at the $390-million Kinetic CU as a share draft officer in 1983, and was named CEO of was then known as TIC FCU in 1991. The credit union was founded in 1956 at Ft. Benning, Ga., with the acronym standing for “The Infantry Center.” It changed its name to Kinetic in 2014.
The credit union has 10 branches, 145 employees, and 48,000 members.
“It has been an honor to serve the members of Kinetic Credit Union and the board of directors for the last 35 years,” Davis said in a statement. “I am very proud to say we have built Kinetic into one of the truly unique and exceptional credit unions in the country, with so many members who consider Kinetic a highly trusted financial partner.”
Among the accolades earned by Davis during her career was NAFCU’s Professional of the Year, and the Moses C. Davis Professional of the Year Award from the Georgia Credit Union Affiliates, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Georgia Credit Union Affiliates, and induction into the Credit Union House Hall of Leaders in Washington.
The Kinetic CU board said in a statement it has launched a search for an “inspirational leader.”
Meanwhile, in Lincoln, Neb., Kenn Miller, who has been with MembersOwn Credit Union since 1977 and its president since 1984, has announced he will retire in February.
Miller began his career as an accountant in 1977 at what was then Lincoln Telephone Employees Cooperative Credit Association.
During his career, Miller has seen the CU grow from $3.5 million in assets to more than $100 million in 2017.
The CU’s board announced it has launched a search for a new CEO.