Who is George?

George A. Hofheimer serves as Chief Research Officer for the Filene Research Institute. Prior to joining the Institute in 2005, Hofheimer was Vice President/Chief Learning Officer of the Credit Union Executives Society (CUES). Previously, he served as Country Manager in Tashkent, Uzbekistan for Price Waterhouse, and was also a Peace Corps Volunteer in that country.

George has worked closely with faculty at Harvard Business School, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, as well as with Oxford University and the London Business School in the U.K. He also developed credit union curricula in cooperation with The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

Hofheimer has authored numerous papers on credit union and consumer finance issues, and is a frequent presenter at credit union industry events on executive development, technology, governance and strategic planning topics. He earned a B.B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. George is the proud father of two boys and resides in Madison, Wisconsin with his lovely wife, Carrie.

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