SAN JOSE, Calif. -- First Tech Federal Credit Union has appointed Jeff Prelle to Chief Risk Officer (CRO), a new role where he will oversee enterprise risk management and lead measuring and reporting risk management for the credit union.
Prelle will report directly to the First Tech Board of Directors and President and CEO Greg Mitchell.
Prelle joins First Tech with over 20 years of leadership experience mitigating organizational risk, managing data governance and privacy functions, and establishing sustainable enterprise operations for several financial institutions, private equity companies, and risk management firms, including Moody's Analytics. Most recently, Prelle served as the EVP of Enterprise Risk at Cadence Bank (NYSE: CADE), where he oversaw enterprise risk, operational risk, model risk, and third-party risk, as well as environmental, social, and governance operations.