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Ken Burns is President
and Treasurer of Technology Credit Union, a $1.3
billion California credit union serving over
80,000 members living and working in the Silicon
Valley. Ken started his credit union career in
1979 as an auditor and has held the credit union
positions of Chief Financial Officer, Executive
Vice President and President/CEO.
Ken’s educational background consists of a BS
degree in accounting, and designation as a
Certified Credit Union Executive (CCUE) and
Certified Chief Executive (CCE). He has also
completed graduate coursework towards a Masters
in Organizational Development.
Ken has been active in credit union industry
leadership roles as a past Credit Union League
chapter president, and board member of WesCorp
Federal Credit Union, the nation’s largest
corporate credit union. As a board member, Ken
served as chairman of the Asset Liability
Committee. He also served on the WesCorp
Supervisory Committee as Chairman.
Ken has also served on the board of his local
municipal water district, local school board, a
technology start-up, and numerous committees
including the California Department of Financial
Institutions task force on Prompt Corrective
Action and the California Credit Union League-
Applied Research Committee.
Ken resides with his wife Michele in Scotts
Valley, CA. He enjoys tennis, scuba diving,
table tennis, playing guitar, and an occasional
round of golf.
Michele Burns
founded Maximizing Life Coaching in 2002;
partnering with clients to provoke their
thoughts and actions to maximize their personal
as well as professional potential. She also
leads workshops promoting health, lectured at
China universities on Career Choices and Crisis
Counseling, taught Consumer Issues at the
College of San Mateo, and began her professional
career in the financial industry developing
employee training and public relations. She has
also developed marriage and parenting workshops
as well as taught counseling classes on Caring
for People to audiences of all ages.
Michele’s educational background includes a
Masters in Educational Counseling; certification
in Health, Classroom and Parenting Management,
and various counseling workshops. She is
certified to administer the MBTI Personality
Type, and STRONG Interest Inventory assessments.
Michele’s enthusiasm for growth is contagious
causing audiences to walk away motivated to make
positive change in their personal and
professional lives. Michele resides with her
husband Ken in Northern California. She enjoys
gardening, hiking, scuba diving, tennis, golf,
and getting to know people.
After 15 years in financial institution
consulting, Denny
Graham formed FI Strategies, LLC in
2008.
The
goal of FI Strategies, LLC is simply to assist
its financial institution clients in improving
their results. Each client is unique and the
solutions for each client should also be unique.
For some, training may be the answer. For others
it may be the development and implementation of
a strategic sales plan. Regardless, there will
be no preconceived solutions presented. Instead,
we’ll work with you to develop a plan customized
to your company.
Unlike more traditional financial institution
sales development firms, FI Strategies, LLC does
not have a package of expensive training or
selection tools that come bundled with the
consulting services. Instead, we’ve partnered
with a number of leading financial institution
consultants and vendors which allows us to
provide the client with “best of breed”
solutions, and in many cases, several choices
for solutions. A full list of partners appears
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