Town & Country Credit Union in Minot, North Dakota, named Brad Houle president and CEO.
He replaces Kalli Schell, who was named interim chief executive of the $642 million-asset credit union in March. Schell replaced Jeremiah Kossen, who was named chief executive of Publix Employees Federal Credit Union in Lakeland, Florida.
Houle was most recently president and CEO of the $287 million-asset CAHP Credit Union in Sacramento, California, a position he held for the past 11 years.
Before that, Houle was president and CEO of the $95 million-asset Forward Financial Credit Union in Niagara, Wisconsin, and Munising Community Credit Union (now Embers Credit Union) in Munising, Michigan.
"Brad is the definition of a servant leader," DelRae Geinert, Town & Country Credit Union's chairperson, said in a press release Wednesday. "He's the type of person who won't just tell you to do something, he'll roll up his sleeves and do it right along with you."
Under Houle's leadership, CAHP developed a commercial real estate lending program and in-house wealth management services. He also developed a state-certified financial education program.
"I grew up on a beef farm in the Midwest and at an early age I learned the value of a community working together to achieve a common goal. This sense of community is what drew me to the credit union industry and I still carry those values with me today," Houle said in the press release.
Town & Country earned $2.8 million in the first nine months of 2022, a 33% decrease from a year earlier, according to call report data from the National Credit Union Administration.
