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The Alliant executive leadership team is committed to providing our members with best-in-class financial solutions.
Ken Schaafsma serves as the Interim Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Risk Officer of Alliant Credit Union, a national digital financial institution with over $20 billion in assets.
Alliant focuses on delivering value in ways that banks can’t. In 2024, through high savings rates, lower loan rates, and the elimination of overdraft fees, Alliant members will see over $500 million in financial returns over national bank averages. Recently, Alliant was named Best Credit Union of 2024 by the Wall Street Journal, Bankrate, CNBC, and NerdWallet, in addition to the New York Post naming Alliant among the best five banks and credit unions for mobile banking. Built In also recognized Alliant as a three-time winner of its 2024 Best Places to Work awards.
Ken has 31 years of experience as a financial services leader. In the last 7 years as Alliant Credit Union’s Chief Risk Officer, he has led credit risk, operational risk, compliance, and business controls teams. Before joining Alliant, Ken spent 18 years at the Northern Trust Company in various operational and risk management roles. Prior to that, he managed several retail branches at St. Paul Federal Bank.
Ken has a bachelor’s degree from Calvin University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Stephani currently leads Alliant’s Member Care and Operations team, where she is responsible for delivering Alliant’s best-in-class products and experience through Direct and Indirect Lending, Loan and Deposit Servicing and Operations, and Member Contact Channels.
Stephani has been with Alliant since April 2018 and has held multiple roles, including the Director of Business Risk and Control and Vice President of Consumer Lending.
Stephani has over 30 years of experience in senior leadership roles in financial services, primarily focused in Consumer Banking, Default Mortgage Servicing and Risk Management. Prior to Alliant, Stephani spent most of her career at Bank of America and HSBC.
Sumeet is the Chief Digital and Marketing Officer, heading digital, marketing and member care functions. He is responsible for enterprise-wide digital and marketing strategies, digital product management, digital innovation and transformation, relationship expansion, marketing, acquisitions, brand, public relations, communications and banking operations [can delete, contact center, digital care and member services].
Prior to joining Alliant as CDMO, Sumeet held several leadership roles at Citi and has extensive experience in marketing, digital, analytics, client experience, operations and technology.
He has a bachelor’s degree in life sciences and a master’s in business management.
Diane is the Chief People Officer for Alliant, leading the human capital and training and development teams. In this role, Diane partners with leaders across Alliant to create an expectational workplace experience for all Alliant team members.
Prior to joining Alliant in 2021, Diane was Chief Talent Officer for Northern Trust, where her responsibilities included leading the end-to-end talent lifecycle across talent acquisition, learning and development, talent and succession planning, workforce analytics and HR strategic planning.
She has a B.A. in Human Resources Management from DePaul University and holds certifications as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP).
Charles is the Chief Capital Markets Officer and head of Commercial Lending. He oversees Alliant’s loan trading operation and FinTech partnership development activities by strategically purchases and sells residential, consumer and commercial loans and diversifies its balance sheet by identifying and cultivating fintech relationships across divergent asset classes.
Charles has held career positions with highly regarded financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, KeyBank and Fifth Third Bank. He served on the board of a large CDC, where he was named Director of the Year in 2011.
Charles earned a Bachelor of Science in finance from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, a Master of Science in regional and urban planning from the London School of Economics and obtained an Executive Scholar designation from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Mark is the Chief Financial Officer at Alliant and leads several teams including accounting, asset/liability management, financial planning and analysis, procurement and treasury. Mark’s primary responsibilities include reporting and forecasting the credit union’s current and future financial standing based on financial and operational data provided by the finance and accounting teams.
Mark has worked for Alliant since 2013 in multiple roles focused on finance, data analytics and execution of strategic enterprise initiatives. Prior to joining Alliant, he worked for other financial institutions in finance, treasury and accounting roles.
Mark has a bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois University, MBA from DePaul University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.) designation.
Meredith is the General Counsel and Chief Ethics & Government Affairs Officer for Alliant and oversees Legal and Audit functions and the Ethics and Government Affairs Programs. She supports all departments at Alliant including the Board of Directors of the Alliant Credit Union foundation.
Meredith started in private practice, where she litigated tort actions. She served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for Cook County, Illinois, both the civil and criminal divisions and later as Deputy General Counsel to the Department of Central Management Services. She also served as in-house counsel for Accenture.
Meredith graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and obtained her JD from DePaul College of Law in Chicago.
Jamie is the Chief Information Officer and Head of Business Strategy. In this role, he leads the technology organization to accelerate Alliant's member vision, business strategy and technology execution.
Prior to Alliant, Jamie held multiple positions at KeyBank, most recently as the Chief Digital Officer, where he was responsible for Key's commercial and consumer digital properties and its Laurel Road, XUP and GradFin businesses. He's also served as the President of USAA Bank, multiple positions at Capital One and PNC bank, an Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company and a Captain in the United States Army. Jamie is also an Associate Professor at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.
Jamie graduated from West Point's United States Military Academy with a BS in Electrical Engineering. He also earned an MBA with High Distinction (George Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School.
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