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17 January 2006 President/CEO of Virginia Credit Union to be Executive-in-Residence at Longwood
Watkins will speak at 7 p.m. in Hiner Auditorium (207) on Good Financial Habits: Things We Don’t Always Learn in School. She is the third speaker in the fifth annual Executive-in-Residence series, sponsored by SunTrust. Watkins, a certified public accountant and a Virginia Commonwealth University graduate, joined the Virginia Credit Union in 1982 as accounting manager. She became vice president of finance in 1986, senior vice president and CFO in 1994, and president and CEO in 2000. Previously she was an auditor for the CPA firm KPMG, a financial analyst for Trigon Blue Cross and accounting manager for Eagle Construction. The Virginia Credit Union is a non-profit financial cooperative owned solely by its members, for whom it provides such services as savings, checking, credit cards and mortgage loans. It has more than 162,000 members and assets exceeding $1.2 billion. The next speaker in the Executive-in-Residence Series will be Fenton N. Hord, the president and CEO of Stock Building Supply of Raleigh, N.C., on March 8. Click here for more details regarding the Executive-in-Residence Series and future speakers. |
Jane G. Watkins, the president and CEO of the Virginia Credit Union, will be Executive-in-Residence in Longwood University’s College of Business & Economics on Wednesday, Feb. 8.