Ed Callahan
Co-founder of MVN
Bio: Ed Callahan recently retired as the CEO/Treasurer of Patelco Credit Union in San Francisco. Patelco is the largest credit union in the Bay Area.
When Ed took over the helm at Patelco in 1987, assets grew from $280 million to more than $3 billion. He also organized and started the Credit Union Service Centers, a shared branch network, was instrumental in the development of the CU ATM CO-OP (a nationwide ATM system) and introduced a program to help smaller credit unions serving low-income communities.
From 1985 to 1987, Ed was the senior partner at the credit union consulting firm, Callahan and Associates. Prior to that, he was appointed in 1981 by former President Ronald Reagan to serve as chairman for the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), an independent federal financial regulatory agency responsible for chartering and supervising 10,500 federal credit unions and insuring 15,500 federally and state-chartered credit unions. While at the NCUA, he made two heroic decisions: to allow credit unions to serve multiple "groups" with a common bond and to challenge credit unions to capitalize their own share insurance fund. Thus, many feel he saved the U.S. credit union movement. Ed was also responsible for creating customized training films for 4,400 field examiners.
In Washington, Ed served as a member of such organizations as former Vice President George Bush's Task Force for Financial Institution Reform and the Depository Institution Deregulation Committee.
Previous to his presidential appointment, Ed served as director of the Illinois Department of Financial Institutions. As director, he was responsible for the supervision of 2,000 consumer finance companies, 1,200 currency exchanges, and 1,000 Illinois-chartered credit unions.
Ed has had many distinctions bestowed upon him. He has been inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C. This prestigious award serves to honor those distinguished individuals whose contributions to cooperative business have been genuinely heroic. The California Credit Union League also presented Ed the Leo Shapiro Lifetime Achievement Award and he was also the recipient of the CUNA Herb Wegner Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement. These awards recognize excellence in credit union philosophy and contributions to the credit union movement.
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Ed received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1951 and a master's degree in educational administration in 1952 from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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