OAKLAND, Calif. – Frank Matous, the president and CEO of SeaWest Coast Guard CU, is retiring as head of the $310 million credit union, ending 50 years in the credit union movement.
Matous is a second-generation credit union CEO whose father, Frank Matous Sr., started Tandem FCU in Warren, Mich., in 1941 and was its CEO for forty five years.
SeaWest’s Matous was previously CEO of the Pontiac School Employees CU in Pontiac, Mich., and served as president of the CU Executives Society.
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