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MCUA Staff Biographies
Senior Management Team
- Michael V. Beall, President/CEO
- Kevin Brueseke, Chief Financial and Services Officer
- Don Cohenour, Chief Membership Officer
- Peggy Nalls, Chief Advocacy Officer
Michael V. Beall, Esq.
President/CEO
Michael V. Beall, known as Mike to his friends, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Missouri Credit Union Association (MCUA). MCUA is the trade association for credit unions in Missouri. Mike also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Missouri Council on Economic Education (MCEE).
Mike joined MCUA in November 2010, after serving as president/CEO of the Maryland and District of Columbia Credit Union Association (MDDCCUA), the trade association for credit unions in Maryland and Washington, D.C. During his tenure at MDDCCUA, Mike worked to merge the former Maryland and D.C. credit union leagues, the first merger between state credit union associations.
Mike’s credit union career began at birth. His parents, Barbara Beall and the late Donald V. Beall, met while working at Agriculture Federal Credit Union and spent their careers at NASA Federal Credit Union. Credit unions have been the Beall family’s passion.
Mike holds a Bachelors degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD (1987). During his college career Mike worked at NASA FCU as a teller and member service representative, learning credit union member service on the front line. Mike received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law, Richmond, VA (1991). Mike is a member of the Virginia State Bar. While attending law school, Mike worked as a legal intern in the Regulatory Affairs Department of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) and in the law office of Hyland and Hyland.
Following law school, Mike served as General Counsel and member of the executive management team at CommonWealth One FCU (1991-1996). In 1992, Mike led efforts to establish the first partnership between COFCU and a newly established Polish credit union.
In 1996, Mike was named Executive Vice President of the North Carolina Credit Union League (1996-2000). Mike led North Carolina’s efforts to counter banker attacks in that state and appeared before the national media on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court when the negative ruling for credit union was announced. He stated “Banks won today, consumers lost.” The passage of the Credit Union Membership Access Act (1998) reversed that loss.
In 2000, Mike returned to the Maryland/DC area to become the first Manager of Governmental Affairs for the World Council of Credit Unions (2000-2004). Mike represented credit unions before more than 30 national governments, including Belize, Bulgaria, Kenya, Korea, Macedonia, Philippines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uzbekistan, and Zambia.
Mike volunteers extensively with the CU Development Education (DE) program and has earned the DE designation from the U.S, Australia, Philippines and UK DE programs.
Chief Financial and Services Officer
Kevin Brueseke is Chief Financial and Services Officer for the Missouri Credit Union Association (MCUA). Kevin’s areas of responsibility include: Finance and Accounting, Administration, Business Partnerships, Product Development, Information Technology, and products sold through MCUA’s wholly owned subsidiary, Credit Union Partnership (CUP), such as check processing and shared branching.Kevin’s credit union career began in 1981 as an accountant for Arsenal Credit Union following his graduation from the University of Missouri - St. Louis. He joined Missouri Corporate Credit Union in 1985 as an accounting manager. At the time, Missouri Corporate was integrated in the Missouri Credit Union Association. Since that time, Brueseke has held numerous management and executive management positions during his 25 year career at MCUA.
Kevin graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of Missouri- St. Louis in 1981. He earned a Master’s of Business Administration with a major in Management from Webster University by attending night school while working full time. Kevin received a Certified League Executive (CLE) designation from Credit Union National Association’s (CUNA) League Management Institute through the University of Wisconsin at Madison school of business in 1996. During the three year program, Brueseke received the distinguished Project of the Year award in both years a project was due. This was the first time for this achievement in the history of the CLE program.
In 1996 Kevin took on the responsibility for the Credit Union Shared Branch Network and within the first year he moved a product that was losing money since its inception in 1994 to profitability, and it has been profitable ever since. In 1997 he co-founded the Annual Buddy Bass Tournament benefiting the Children’s Miracle Network which has raised approximately $160,000 in its 14 years in existence. In 2007 Kevin was named to the Executive Committee of CUNA’s CFO Council and since 2009 he has served as the Chairman of their Membership Committee, which has seen record growth. During his tenure at MCUA Kevin has led many strategic initiatives such as the Membership Fee schedule committee in 1995, the subcommittee for capital in 1994 and development of a patronage rebate formula in 1999. He developed a small credit union accounting service that has grown to provide accounting service to the local chapter of the Children’s Miracle Network as well as the Credit Union Association of Oklahoma. In 2009 he was placed on an AACUL subcommittee to develop a financial analysis comparison tool for all state leagues. He also serves as MCUA’s representative on the CU Images Board, a joint venture between the Missouri, Georgia and South Carolina Credit Union Leagues for electronic presentment of checks.
Brueseke met his wife, Annette, when they were both working at Arsenal Credit Union. They have two daughters. His hobbies and interests include fishing, particularly Bass fishing and tournaments, music, bowling, hiking/backpacking, exercising, and tropical fish. He volunteers for the Children’s Miracle Network and is an active member in the Concord Village Lions Club -one of the largest in the state of Missouri - and volunteers his time helping to raise money for eye research. He’s passionate about what credit unions stand for and is proud of his service to this industry.
Chief Membership Officer
Don Cohenour is Chief Membership Officer for the Missouri Credit Union Association (MCUA), the trade association for Missouri’s credit unions and its members.As Chief Membership Officer, his responsibilities include managing the field representatives within the state, serving as an executive field representative with all member credit unions, and providing overall responsibility for credit union relationships. Don is responsible for credit union staff and volunteer development, consulting services, regulatory compliance, training and education and all product and service sales in the state. He is based in and manages the Missouri Credit Union Association’s Kansas City office.
Don’s credit union career began as a volunteer for the credit committee at Farmland Industries Credit Union in Kansas City and escalated to the national level in 1986 when he became the vice president of Administration and Controller for U.S. Central Credit Union. He served in that capacity until 1992. Don worked for seven months as a special consultant to the Kansas Department of Credit Unions, converting privately insured credit unions to federal insurance, before becoming the president of Baptist Medical Center Credit Union in late 1992. Don joined MCUA as a league consultant in 1994. He holds a bachelor’s of science in Accounting and Business Administration from the University of Kansas.
Don has held numerous positions on boards of church, Masonic and community organizations. He has served on the Federal Reserve Return Item Advisory Board and is past president of the Kansas City Chapter of the National Corporate Cash Management Association.
Chief Advocacy Officer
Peggy Nalls is Chief Advocacy Officer for the Missouri Credit Union Association (MCUA). Peggy’s accomplishments with MCUA include organizing grassroots efforts for the federal 1998 Credit Union Membership Access Act, and grassroots strategy as well as work on legislative language for Missouri’s two field-of-membership bills passed in 1998 and 2007. Peggy states that working on credit union field-of-membership legislation has proved to her that a win can sometimes be a loss and hopes to be a part of passing legislation that would return decisions on field-of-membership to credit union boards. Since joining MCUA in 1993, Peggy has worked in the marketing area and served at the director level in education and training. She has also supervised communications and public relations and compliance. In her current position, Peggy oversees state and federal advocacy efforts as well as communications for MCUA.
Prior to joining the association, Peggy worked as a freelance copywriter and held several positions with two newspapers. She spent seven years at an AM/FM radio station in Texas where she entered as a copywriter, advanced to news reporter, hosted the morning drive time news/talk show for four years and was named president. She also managed hotels for five years across the south. While with the station she interviewed a variety of people from entertainers, to politicians and accused murderers. After being robbed at gun point, shot at, and suffering an arsonist fire in her apartment, Peggy says she made a “flight to safety” to credit unions, similar to what a number of consumers have done since the financial meltdown. In the late 1980s, she joined Vantage Credit Union as marketing director and then moved on to MCUA. She was bitten by the credit union bug and has never looked back.
Over the years, Peggy’s volunteer work has included serving as stage manager for a performing arts theater in Texas run by a cooperative arts council, community outreach with her church and serving as a Credit Union Development Educator (CUDE).
