SEATTLE – Seattle Metropolitan CU has named Richard Romero, the chief operations officer at Los Angeles Firemen’s CU, as president and CEO of the $570-million credit union.
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Romero will succeed Robert Harvey, the credit union’s longtime CEO, who retired last year.
Romero started in the financial services industry in 1988 as a part-time teller at Great Western Bank. He worked his way through most branch positions and in 2000 he went to work as a director of branches at Telesis Community CU, where he eventually became vice president for consumer lending, call center operations, branch network, and small business lending. In 2004, he moved to Los Angeles Firemen’s CU.
