SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Gordon Dames, a long-time credit union executive who built Mountain America CU into one of the largest credit unions in the country until his departure last year, has been named vice president of SWBC.
Dames will serve as senior vice president of national account sales for the company’s credit union sales operations, using strategies that he used as CEO of Mountain America for 17 years and of San Diego County CU prior to that.
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