Risk Review and Investment & Loan Committee

Tom Vandeloo

Tom is a director on the Board of DUCA Financial Services Credit Union. He joined DUCA’s board in 2015 and has served as its board chair since 2016. Tom Vandeloo retired in 2020, culminating his career as a Partner at PwC. He has nearly thirty years of consulting experience in business integration & separation, cost optimization, business performance improvement, procurement...

Christie Stephenson

Christie is the Executive Director of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, where she focuses on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing and governance. Christie is a regular TV, print and radio media commentator on responsible business and investing, and a member of the Climate Governance Experts Network...

Paul Challinor

Paul, a Chartered Professional Accountant for more than 35 years, was elected to First West Credit Union’s board, in 2019; he currently serves on its Audit and Conduct Review and Risk, Investment and Loan committees. Recently retired as a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Vancouver, Paul was the leader of PwC’s Financial Services practice in BC from 2000 to 2015. Throughout...

Penny-Lynn McPherson

From 1987 until her retirement in 2015, Penny-Lynn was Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at the Payments Canada. She has over 25 years’ experience in payments, clearing and settlement, ecommerce, compliance, risk management and corporate governance. She has served on and co-chaired a number of payment system committees and also served as a director of the Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario from 2011 to 2015...

John Kortram

John built his career in the Netherlands, holding various Executive Director positions with international corporations. In 2011, John immigrated to Canada and settled in Nelson, BC where he was a small business owner in the community which eventually led him to become a member of the Nelson and District Credit Union Board of Directors. As director on the board of...