2024 Board Elections
Learn more about OnPoint’s leadership and Board of Directors, including the three Directors elected in 2024.
MESSAGE FROM KATHERINE DURHAM
Chair / Board of DirectorsOne of the important roles of the Board as a whole is to continue to protect the safety and soundness of the credit union that exists to provide its members with more opportunities for their financial success.
Thank you for taking this opportunity to learn about OnPoint Community Credit Union’s Board of Directors election process. Within this website you will find information on each nominee, including his or her qualifications and reasons for wanting to serve.
A Director’s Important Role
OnPoint Community Credit Union is a local, not-for-profit financial cooperative. It is owned by you and your fellow members. Our Board is made up of nine Directors who represent the entire membership. Each year, three of the nine positions are open for election. The Board, acting as fiduciary to all members, is responsible for oversight and determining the strategic direction of the Credit Union. A talented staff of expert professionals, headed by President/CEO Rob Stuart, runs OnPoint’s day-to-day operations consistent with policies and aimed at achieving the strategic objectives set by the Board.
OnPoint’s membership has surpassed 546,000, and our assets are at $8.7 billion. One of the important roles of the Board as a whole is to continue to protect the safety and soundness of the credit union that exists to provide its members with more opportunities for their financial success. This means a Director has considerable responsibilities in helping steer OnPoint in a successful strategic direction.
Nominee Determination
Finding qualified, committed individuals to serve on OnPoint’s Board is more important than ever before. OnPoint’s Nominating Committee is made up of sitting Board Directors and OnPoint members at-large. This year’s committee was comprised of Amy Slagle as Chair, Directors Melissa Damm and Peggy Willer, and at-large members Craig Brown, Jeanne Enders and Payton Wayne. The Nominating Committee administered a thorough search for interested candidates and conducted careful reviews of submitted applications.
New Election Process
This year, the number of open positions is the same as the number of nominees. As voted on by the board, we will follow a non-voting format whenever the number of nominees matches the number of open positions. This format will remain in place until the Board votes to make another change. The three nominees will be elected and officially announced at the 2024 Annual Meeting.
Annual Meeting
OnPoint’s annual meeting will be held on Thursday, March 21, 2024, at the OnPoint headquarters office located at 2701 NW Vaughn St., Portland, Suite 800 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. There is one nominee for each open Director position, and accordingly there will be no vote and the nominees will be elected by acclamation. The nominees who will be elected are Matt Mroczek, Keith Thomajan and Felicia Tripp.
This year I took over the leadership of OnPoint’s Board of Directors, and it has been a unique and exciting experience to see the credit union’s growth and achievements in 2023 as well as its plans for the future. I look forward to what 2024 will bring and it’s my honor to help guide OnPoint into its next five-year strategic plan.
Your Board looks forward to continuing its commitment to providing the highest-level oversight functions it can—always in the best interest of OnPoint’s membership.
Matt Mroczek
OnPoint Member Since 2014I've strived to work with my fellow directors to recognize the talent in OnPoint employees and allow them room to realize their potential while maintaining an appropriate level of oversight."
I’ve been serving you and our fellow OnPoint members as a director for the past nine years, and it has been an honor.
During my time on the board, we have almost tripled our lending in the community. We have also invested in new branches, more than doubling the number of branches available to ensure that you have access to the service and expertise you’ve come to expect. All this was accomplished while continuing to maintain a safe and sound institution that protects our deposits and the stability of our financial system. While our great employees and management team deserve the credit for this work, I’ve strived to work with my fellow directors to recognize the talent in OnPoint employees and allow them room to realize their potential while maintaining an appropriate level of oversight.
I’m running for a new term on the Board of Directors to help OnPoint continue to grow so that we can improve our financial stability, expand access and services to existing members, and make our credit union more accessible to new members. This will help more of our neighbors (some of whom may not have previously had positive experiences with financial institutions) use OnPoint as a platform to learn healthy financial habits and create financial mobility through products and approaches that are low cost, not predatory, and come with the expertise of our amazing employees.
If you are taking the time to read this, you recognize how important your role as a member/owner of OnPoint is, and I encourage you to consider board service in the future.
Felicia Tripp
OnPoint Member since 1998I will reflect in my service a dedication to promoting access to financial management, my many years of nonprofit management experience and most importantly a listening ear for our membership.
I believe in the core values that being an OnPoint member represents. When I became a member in 1998, I decided that this was the credit union for me because it valued building strong communities and promoting financial growth for its members. In watching the current pandemic unfold over 2020, it caused me to reflect on the importance of financial literacy for individuals and how I could provide that for my community. If you choose me as a representative for our credit union, I will reflect in my service a dedication to promoting access to financial management, my many years of nonprofit management experience and most importantly a listening ear for our membership.
As a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I was taught by my family the importance of serving your community and giving back with your skills and talent. I dedicated my personal and professional life to this family value of service above self. I look forward to the challenges and opportunities of board service.
Keith Thomajan
OnPoint Member since 2000OnPoint consistently exceeds my expectations for corporate and community leadership. It would be an honor to serve as a director and support the credit union in maintaining these high standards and performance in the years ahead.
I have been an OnPoint member since 2000. During that time, the credit union has played an important role for my family and me as we have made this region home. As a newly married couple, we set up our first joint accounts with OnPoint (then Portland Teachers)! Since then, OnPoint has helped us buy and expand our home and start my wife’s small business. Most recently, the credit union helped us start our teenage boys on the path to financial self-reliance through creation of their own savings accounts. Every step of the way, OnPoint staff have consistently under-promised and over-delivered, and the services and products have always met our needs.
As a member of the OnPoint Board of Directors these past three years, I have been proud to be a part of a team focused on rock-solid safety and soundness, exceptional financial performance, equitable access and opportunities for members and potential members, and best-in-class member services and benefits.
View our 2022 Annual Report
Learn more about OnPoint's achievements in 2022 with messages from our President/CEO and Chair of our Supervisory Committee.