Outstanding Speakers
Enjoy Meeting These Knowledgeable Industry Professionals David Adams Michael Bell Franklin Drake Angela Hall Robin D. Hoag Fred Kelly Stephanie Klocinski John Kolhoff Veronica Madsen Ken Otsuka Jeff Rendel John Rupert
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Robin is the senior director of the financial institutions group at Doeren Mayhew. During the past 34 years, he has developed a national reputation as a credit union expert, working with more than 250 credit unions, ranging in size from $50 million to over $3 billion. His is an audit director, management consultant, and national speaker on credit union issues. His expertise covers a wide variety of areas, including audit and internal control systems, mergers and consolidations, forensics and fraud and credit union risk management.
John has worked for the Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation since 1994 and is the assistant director of the credit union division, responsible for supervising the credit union safety and soundness examinations for 212 state-chartered credit unions and information technology examinations for all state-chartered credit unions and banks. He holds a bachelor’s in science in business administration from Central Michigan University.
Veronica has been counsel for the Michigan Credit Union League & Affiliates and CUcorp since July 2005. She has also served as the MCUL & Affiliates regulatory specialist and later a League consultant. As counsel, Veronica provides legal advice for the League and its subsidiaries. She is a frequent and popular speaker at MCUL & Affiliates educational events and presents the bi-annual Reg Update Webinar.
Mutual Group. In this role, Ken assists credit unions in identifying areas of risk in their operations, and recommends appropriate loss controls to reduce loss exposure. 
Jeff brings a wealth of education, knowledge and experience to the platform, with experience as a federal regulator, financial executive and Congressional lobbyist, Jeff knows business and the financial services’ marketplace. As president of Rising Above Enterprises, Jeff works with professionals who want greater professional growth and with financial services’ providers that want deeper market penetration and engaged, committed workforces.
John is the CEO of Muskegon Co-op Federal Credit Union. He previously worked as a consultant with the Michigan Credit Union League and has experience with several other financial institutions. John is involved with Muskegon Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce. He attend Spring Arbor University.
the president and CEO of Family First Credit Union since March 2005. He was previously employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Banking as a financial institutions examiner supervisor. He possesses a bachelor’s of art in management from and a master’s of business administration. Vance currently serves as a trustee on the Michigan Credit Union Foundation, and on the NASCUS education committee.
Management, a group that provides outsourced A/L reports and other technical assistance to the firm’s customers and sales representatives. Wade has been a frequent speaker at various industry and regulatory seminars, has written numerous articles for various trade publications. Prior to joining Vining Sparks, Wade was employed by a $3bb financial institution in the Midwest. Wade earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Memphis.