Conference Speakers
 

LEE C. BUTKE, President/CEO, Corporate One

Lee Butke joined Corporate One as President/CEO in 1998.  He began his 25-year credit union career at Wright Patt Credit Union as a management trainee, progressing to a vice-president position. Butke then served for over a decade as the CEO of Day Air and Telhio Credit Unions before arriving at Corporate One. He presently serves on the Board of the Ohio Credit Union Foundation, the Board of Primary Financial Company, LLC and the Executive Committee of the Association of Corporate Credit Unions. Butke has also served on the Board of the Central Regional Automated Funds Transfer System, the Executive Committee of the MAC Advisory Group, and various other industry boards and committees. He is a recipient of the CUES Golden Mirror Award for Service and was voted CEO of the Year by the readers of Credit Union Times in 1995.  Butke holds an undergraduate degree from Miami University with a major in Finance and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Wright State University.

ERIC S. BROOME

Eric S. Broome serves as General Counsel for Georgia’s Own Credit Union located in Atlanta, Georgia. The $1.1 billion residential charter credit union with 113,000 members provides service in six counties within Georgia. Formerly, the credit union served telephone company employees of AT&T and Bell South. Along with being responsible for internal legal matters, Broome is also responsible for having developed the Vendor Management Policy. The increased importance which the National Credit Union Administration and state regulators have placed on having reliable relationships with third-party vendors requires systematic due diligence on the part of all credit unions. Broome is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and a 2006 graduate of Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida. Prior to entering law school in 2003, he worked at Vystar Credit Union (formerly JAX Navy Federal Credit Union) in Jacksonville. In October 2007, he earned the Credit Union Compliance Expert (CUCE) certification from CUNA. Broome, a native of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, also holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Southern Mississippi.

M.B. “DUTCH” DUCHER, Director, CenCorp Business Solutions, LLC

M.B. “Dutch” Ducher joined CenCorp in October 2003 as Vice President of Business Services and Director of CenCorp Business Solutions, LLC (CBS). Dutch has over 32 years of finance and business lending experience. Before joining CenCorp, Dutch was a Loan Officer at SOC Credit Union. He was a Senior Vice President in charge of Lending at Madison National Bank. Dutch spent four years in the United States Air Force and five years as a Marine Deputy for the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office and ten years as a Reserve Police Officer for the City of Madison Heights. Dutch holds a degree in Business Management from Macomb Community College. 

Dutch developed a free, compliant Sample Business Lending Policy for credit unions and authored a White Paper for the Michigan Credit Union League for CEOs considering entering business services. Today, CBS provides business loan underwriting, documentation, servicing, loan participations, staff training, program set-up and portfolio review and support for member credit unions. CBS’s “credit union” is non-profit and wholly owned by Central Corporate Credit Union. Currently, over 90 credit unions in Michigan and Ohio use CBS services.
 

TOM FIELD, Keynote Speaker

Tom Field is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years experience in newspapers, magazines, books, events and electronic media. A veteran community journalist with extensive business/technology and international reporting experience, he has written news, sports, features, fiction and analysis for publications ranging from Editor & Publisher to Yankee Magazine, and he has held editorial management positions at weekly and daily newspapers, as well as a global business/technology magazine. An accomplished public speaker, Field has developed and moderated scores of podcasts, webcasts, roundtables and conferences, and he has appeared on C-SPAN, The History Channel and Travel Channel television programs.  Field has won more than 25 regional and national journalism awards for writing, editing and community service, and his publications have been consistent “General Excellence” award-winners. His first book, Secrets in the Shadows: The Art and Life of Gene Colan, was published by TwoMorrows Books in 2005.

ALONZO A. SWANN III

Alonzo A. Swann III is the Regional Director of the Region III – Atlanta office. As Regional Director, Swann is responsible for the oversight of the chartering program for federal credit unions and the examination and supervision programs for all federally insured credit unions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and the Virgin Islands.

Swann joined NCUA as an examiner in Gary, Indiana in 1983 and has held various positions within the agency prior to becoming Regional Director, including Associate Regional Director of Field Operations in the Chicago regional office.

Swann received a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Indiana University in 1981 and a post baccalaureate certificate in Data Processing and Information Systems in 1983. He spent four years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and currently is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserves. Swann is married with three children and four grandchildren.
 

RENÉE SATTIEWHITE, President, Sattiewhite Training Productions, Inc.

Renée is a former instructor for the Spelman College Continuing Education Department and a graduate of Oglethrope University with a B.A. in Communications. Renée is a national keynote presenter for Clemson University’s Professional Development for Women’s Conferences and past Program Director for the AACUC Reaching Toward the Future Internship Program.  Renée is the possibility of people serving other people passionately.