The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) has named Mark A. Treichel to become its next executive director. Treichel will assume his new role Dec. 30, replacing David Marquis, who is retiring after serving as NCUA's executive director since January 2009.
Since 2003, Treichel has served as the regional director of NCUA's Region I office in Albany, N.Y., where he had responsibility for the oversight of federally insured credit unions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Treichel joined NCUA as an examiner in 1986 in Minneapolis. He quickly moved up through the ranks, becoming problem case officer in 1990 and a supervisory examiner in 1991. Starting in 1995, Treichel served as director of special actions in Concord, Calif. He also had a stint as acting risk management director in 1998 in the Office of Examination and Insurance, before becoming associate regional director of operations in Region I later that year. Between 2000 and 2003, Treichel served as NCUA's deputy executive director.