National Credit Union Foundation announces 2018 Wegner Award winners

By Nathan DiCamillo October 16, 2017, 2:50 p.m. EDT 1 Min Read

The National Credit Union Foundation announced four winners of the 2018 Herb Wegner Memorial Awards for outstanding individual achievement on Monday.

The winners are:

Outstanding Individual Achievement: Angel V. Castro, President of Castro y Asociados
Outstanding Individual Achievement: Bill Hampel, former Chief Policy Officer for the Credit Union National Association
Outstanding Individual Achievement: Susan Mitchell, CEO of Mitchell, Stankovic & Associates
Outstanding Individual Achievement: Chuck Purvis, President/CEO of Coastal Credit Union

The awards will be presented at a fundraising event hosted by the Foundation at the Marriott Marquis on Feb. 26, 2018 in conjunction with the Credit Union National Association's Governmental Affairs Conference in Washington, D.C.

Gigi Hyland, NCUF

“It’s appropriate to announce these winners this week as credit unions will be celebrating International Credit Union Day,” Gigi Hyland, executive director of the Foundation, said in a press release. “The four award winners truly embody and live out the credit union philosophy of ‘people helping people’ and have done tremendous work to improve people’s financial lives.”

Registration for dinner sponsorship and tickets will be available at ncuf.coop later this year.

Nathan DiCamillo

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