Chris Parker will succeed Tim Collia as president and CEO of Northeast Credit Union in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Collia announced his retirement in March after 19 years as CEO of Northeast, which merged with Woodlands Credit Union in 2013. Collia helped grow the organization to over $1.9 billion of assets. Collia's last day was July 2.
Parker comes from Partners Federal Credit Union in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, where he recently served as interim co‐CEO, Northeast said. Partners serves Walt Disney Co. employees and their families in California and Florida. The credit union manages $2.36 billion of assets.
Raymond Bald, the board chairperson of Northeast, said in a press release that under Parker's direction, "Northeast will continue to flourish, just as it has under" Collier.
Parker rose through the ranks of leadership at Partners — he served as chief operations officer, chief member service officer and executive vice president — since joining in 2007.
He managed the Partners’ lending, operations, payments, digital services and business transformation operations and was responsible for driving the credit union’s digital and channel delivery strategies.
Parker has worked for Citigroup and Capital One Financial. He obtained a master’s in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.
