CUNA Regulatory Compliance eSchool: Update
Instructors

Instructors

  Bill Berg

Bill has been with the Florida Credit Union League since 1988 as the vice president of compliance. Prior to joining the league, Bill worked for eleven years for the Federal Reserve of Atlanta – Jacksonville Branch. Bill answers technical/regulatory questions via the telephone system or through email; provides customized training to credit unions, chapters, and other groups; writes a column for the FCUL News; maintains InfoSight (The FCUL's Online Compliance System); and facilitates planning sessions.

  Franklin Drake

Franklin Drake joined the Raleigh, North Carolina law firm of Smith Debnam as an partner in April of 1994, after a 16 year practice specializing in creditor's rights, bankruptcy, and repossession law with William Mapother in Louisville, Kentucky. He was senior vice president of Mapother's law firm and is an owner of Smith Debnam.

Mr. Drake has practiced extensively in North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia and the federal courts of southern Indiana. He lectures frequently at practical skills courses for attorneys and paralegals, and at bankruptcy and compliance training programs for NASCUS, regulatory agencies and state credit union leagues across the country. He has published a number of articles on bankruptcy and collections law over 20 years.

For the past 29 years, he has advised and represented most of the nation's major financers on secured lending and bankruptcy matters. He has specialized in representing credit unions for more than two decades.

  Joy Lee

Joy recently assumed the position of director of supervision in the office of examination and insurance with the National Credit Union Association, where she started as an examiner in Dallas, TX in 1987. She has served the agency in several positions including supervision analyst, problem case officer, supervisory examiner, associate regional director of operations for Region 2, and associate regional director of programs.

  Jane Pannier

Jane is the executive vice president of Counter Intelligence Associates, a consulting firm for financial institutions. Jane specializes in compliance training and audits, risk based lending projects, strategic planning, operational reviews, and management and sales training. Previously, Jane served as senior compliance counsel and director of the regulatory compliance department for NAFCU. She has more than 16 years of credit union experience as credit manager, director of research and development, VP of marketing, and CEO.

  David A. Reed

David A. Reed, founder of CU Doctor, is an author, consultant, and nationally recognized speaker. He has nearly two decades of collections and bankruptcy experience representing both debtors and creditors. He is a former bankruptcy attorney, vice president, and general counsel for a large credit union.

  R. Todd Sherpy

Todd Sherpy is a founding partner in Sherpy & Jones, P.A, of Lexington, South Carolina. Todd and his team are dedicated to serving the legal needs of credit unions and have attained a national reputation for their work in legal auditing, compliance, and bankruptcy/collections. Todd has also authored CUNA's RegTraC and VAP training modules and serves as editor of Credit Union Legal News©.