APPLE VALLEY, Minn. – Wings Financial CU, Minnesota’s biggest credit union, is the latest credit union giant to look to Chicago’s Alliant CU for a new chief executive, naming Frank Weidner, senior vice president for member services at Alliant as president of the $3.2 billion credit union.
Today’s appointment follows last week’s naming of Rudy Pereira, chief of operations at the $8 billion Alliant CU, as CEO of Wisconsin’s Royal CU.
Both Wings and Alliant share similar roots, with Wings being chartered to serve employees of Northwest Airlines and Alliant founded to serve employees of United Airlines.
Weidner will succeed Paul Parish, the current CEO at Wings who is retiring after leading the one-time Northwest Airlines Employees FCU into new markets and building it into one of the most admired credit unions in the nation over the past 20 years.
Weidner joined Alliant in 1994 as the chief financial officer and director of finance and administration and previously held positions with US FCU in Minnesota and with the national accounting firm of McGladrey & Pullen.
Weidner, a Minnesota native, is a graduate of St. Johns University in Collegeville, Minn.
