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John Klassen

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John Klassen currently is the Chief Finance and Compliance/Chief Financial Officer for Kindred Credit Union in Kitchener, Ontario, since 2009. He worked in a in number of member-facing capacities as a MSR, Loans Officer and Certified Financial Planner before moving to Kindred’s Head Office in 2000 as Chief Operating Officer. John is a certified CPA/CMA and holds a Bachelor of...

Richard Davies

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Richard is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Tandia Financial Credit Union in Hamilton, Ontario a position he has held since 2014. Previous roles include CEO at Gulf & Fraser Fishermen’s and United Savings Credit Unions (which merged with Gulf & Fraser), in BC. His 28 years in the BC and Ontario credit union systems have provided CEO experience...

Carolyn Burke

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Carolyn retired in 2020 as the Head, Enterprise Payments at RBC where she had worked since 1985. She was responsible for leading RBC’s payments strategy council including that organization’s payment modernization program. An experienced board member in the Canadian financial services industry, Carolyn served on the Canadian Payments Association board, Payments Canada Member Advisory Council (past chair), Payments Canada Board,...

Penny-Lynn McPherson

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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...

Shelley McDade

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Shelley’s financial services career spans 35 years in the BC credit union system. She is currently Chief Executive Officer of Sunshine Coast Credit Union, a 75 year old cooperative with $580 million in assets and more than 16,000 members. Shelley is best known for her commitment and passion for leveraging collaboration to create value for members locally and across the...