EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Royal CU announced this morning it hired Rudy Periera, senior vice president at Chicago's Alliant CU, as president and CEO of the $1.1 billion credit union.
Periera will succeed Charles Grossklaus who is retiring after 40 years with Royal, the past 27 as president and CEO.
Pereira is a 25 year veteran of the credit union industry, serving most recently chief of operations and technology at Alliant, the $5 billion credit union originally chartered to serve employees of United Airlines. Pereira is an active industry executive who was chair of the CUNA/BITS Advisory Task Force and vice chair of the CUNA Council Forum, as well as a frequent conference speaker and writer for the credit union industry.
Royal serves more than 135,000 members with 22 branches in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
