Speaker biographies
J. Kirk Cuevas is a partner in Dollar Associates, LLC, a full-service consulting group focusing on credit unions and the organizations that serve them. An attorney by profession, Mr. Cuevas served as chief of staff and counsel to National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) board chairman Dennis Dollar from 2001 until 2004. Prior to Mr. Dollar’s designation as NCUA chairman in February 2001, Mr. Cuevas served as executive assistant to Mr. Dollar in his role as a member of the NCUA board from 1997 until 2001. In both of these positions, he was Mr. Dollar’s foremost credit union policy advisor. From 1994 until 1997, Mr. Cuevas was a corporate insurance attorney who managed the day-to-day operations of a fourteen-county region for the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He began his career with State Farm Insurance in 1991 as a claims representative/attorney in Biloxi, Mississippi. Mr. Cuevas is a licensed attorney and a member of the Mississippi Bar. A former college instructor who taught law courses at the undergraduate level, he has been a regular presenter on credit union law and regulation at national, regional, state, and local conferences.
Peter F. Duffy is associate director at Sandler O’Neill & Partners, LP in New York City. He works with credit unions and banks nationwide in competitive analysis, investment portfolio development, charter decisions, board meetings, loan portfolio sales, and asset liability management. Mr. Duffy has been a member and vice chairman of the Credit Union Executives Society’s Financial Suppliers Advisory Committee, where he is currently chairman. He has also been a frequent speaker at credit union and bank conferences since 1996. Mr. Duffy has worked with credit unions and banks since 1993, and his articles on competitiveness, investments, asset/liability management, and the economy have been published on a regular basis in Credit Union Times and Credit Union Journal. Prior to joining Sandler O’Neill, Mr. Duffy spent elevent years at the Procter and Gamble Company in sales and sales management, where he was involved in many test market initiatives for the company. He was also a sales manager for Sealy Mattress and for National Foods.
John D. Hawke rejoined Arnold & Porter LLP’s financial services practice in 2004 after nine and a half years of government service in the areas of financial institutions policy and regulation. For six years he served as comptroller of currency, prior to which he served for three and a half years as under secretary of the treasury for domestic finance. As comptroller, Mr. Hawke was a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the board of directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council. As under secretary of the treasury, he chaired the Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence Steering Committee and served as a director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. Before joining the treasury in 1995, Mr. Hawke served as chairman of Arnold & Porter for eight years, which he helped to establish as one of the nation’s premier financial services practices. Mr. Hawke first joined Arnold & Porter as an associate in 1962 and became a partner in 1967. He left the firm in 1975 to serve as general counsel to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, returning in 1978. Mr. Hawke has published extensively on matters relating to the regulation of financial institutions. He taught federal regulation of banking at the Georgetown University Law Center and at the Morin Center for Banking Law Studies at Boston University School of Law, where he serves as chairman of the board of advisors. Before joining Arnold & Porter, he was a law clerk for Judge E. Barrett Prettyman on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and was counsel to the Select Committee on Education in the House of Representatives. Mr. Hawke also served in the U.S. Air Force.
Rodney E. Hood was appointed by President George W. Bush to a seat on the board of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) on November 15, 2005. Following his appointment, the NCUA board elected Mr. Hood to serve as vice chairman. Prior to joining NCUA, Mr. Hood served in the Bush administration at the United States Department of Agriculture as the associate administrator of the Rural Housing Service. In his position as associate administrator, Mr. Hood addressed housing needs in rural America and helped administer a $43 billion loan portfolio. Prior to joining the public-service sector, Mr. Hood served as the marketing director and group sales manager for the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in Durham, N.C. Before joining N.C. Mutual, he was national director of the Emerging Markets Group for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. While at Wells Fargo, he also served on the board of the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hood worked for Bank of America as a Community Reinvestment Act officer and completed the management development program at GE Capital Corporation.
Alex J. Pollock has been a resident fellow at AEI since July 2004, focusing on financial policy issues, including government-sponsored enterprises, Social Security reform, accounting standards, and the issues raised by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Previously he spent thirty-five years in banking, including twelve years as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, while also writing numerous articles on financial systems and management. He is a director of Allied Capital Corporation, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation, the International Union for Housing Finance, and chairman of the board at the Great Books Foundation.
Alan D. Theriault is a senior advisor to credit union managers looking at the mutual savings institution charter. He coordinated the first conversion of a state-chartered credit union to a federal mutual savings institution, which, among other obstacles at the time, involved getting two state laws passed to facilitate the switch. Since this historic conversion, Mr. Theriault has remained in contact with numerous credit unions about the process and publishes a newsletter entitled Converting from a Credit Union, which chronicles this emerging trend. He is also editor of Conversion Guide—The Cooperative Banking Charter. Prior to advising credit union managers, Mr. Theriault held positions with a major Wall Street investment firm, and was president of a mutual savings bank, founder and senior executive of a mortgage banking and business lending firm, and founder and executive of a National Association of Securities Dealers member firm.
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