SCOTT COLLINS

Scott Collins is the Executive Vice President of National Sales and Marketplace Relationships at CUAnswers and serves on the CUSO’s Executive Council. He joined CUAnswers in March of 2003, where he began his tenure as the President and first employee of Xtend, Inc., a multi-owned cooperative CUSO formed with the sole purpose of increasing the competitive advantage of its owing credit unions through aggregate buying, strategic partnerships, and shared resource services. During his fourteen (14) years leading Xtend, he oversaw the growth of the company to more than 75 employees and the development of a broad product and service portfolio that served more than 150 credit unions across the country. In March of 2017, Scott transitioned to his new role leading the national sales and collaboration efforts for CU*Answers.

Scott has a long history of supporting the Credit Union movement. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Hope College, he was hired by IBM Corporation in 1985. In his seven years at IBM, Scott occupied various sales and management positions, where his many clients included WESCO (the data processing CUSO that is now CUAnswers). After leaving IBM to pursue other opportunities, he continued to serve the credit union industry as an IT Consultant, working very closely with CUAnswers and its clients for nearly a decade.