Steve Arbaugh, senior vice chairman of finance and chief monetary officer at SECU, Maryland’s largest state-chartered credit score union, was named 2022 Skilled of the Yr by the Credit score Union Nationwide Affiliation (CUNA) Finance Council.

The Skilled of the Yr Award honors a person who exemplifies excellence in credit score union monetary administration. The award acknowledges people who constantly excel for the good thing about their employer and the development of the credit score union motion.

Previous to becoming a member of SECU in 2008, Arbaugh spent 30 years in business banking throughout which he developed management expertise in strategic planning, enterprise danger administration, asset and legal responsibility administration, mergers and acquisitions, funding and by-product portfolio administration, and organizational change administration.

Arbaugh is closely concerned within the credit score union neighborhood, serving as previous Chairman of the CUNA Finance Council the place he additionally served as Chairman of the Membership and Regulatory Committees, and on the CUNA Finance Council’s Government Committee. Notably, he co-founded the MD|DC Credit score Union Affiliation’s CFO Roundtable, which gathers CFOs from Maryland, D.C. and surrounding states to share concepts and focus on challenges in sustaining the protection and soundness of their respective monetary establishments.

A Maryland native, Arbaugh can be keen about instructing monetary literacy to adults and youngsters throughout the state, serving as earlier Chairman of the Maryland Council on Financial Training and on the Board of the Maryland Coalition for Monetary Literacy. As a previous Treasurer on the Board of the Credit score Union Basis of MD|DC, he assisted in offering assets to credit score unions and the communities they serve with an emphasis on monetary literacy, small credit score union help, management improvement and training.