Candidates for the Board - Olya Sheweli (Ольга Шевель)

Nine members of our credit union are running for positions on our board. Each day this week we will feature a few of them on our blog. The elections are being held at our AGM on April 23. For a view of all of the candidates, please visit the Candidates album on our Facebook page.

Olya Sheweli is running for one of the two (2) positions reserved for residents of the City of Hamilton, the Regional Municipality of Halton, or the Towns of Caledonia or Grimsby.

Olya Sheweli has been actively involved in the credit union movement for 25 years. She was first appointed to the Credit Committee of United Ukrainian Credit Union in 1988 serving three years – two of those as Chair.

In 1991 Mrs. Sheweli joined the Board of Directors of United Ukrainian Credit Union (UCU). From 1999 she sat on the Audit Committee and served as the committee’s chair for four years. Mrs. Sheweli was first elected as the Chair of UUCU in 2005 and served in that capacity until UUCU merged with Ukrainian Credit Union Limited (UCU) in 2012. She took a leading role in the successful merger of the two credit unions. Mrs. Sheweli is currently a member of the UCU board of directors.

Since 1991, Mrs. Sheweli has also served as a director and Vice-President of the Council of Ukrainian Credit Unions of Canada (CUCUC), serving as Vice-President. In 2009 she was elected President of the organization. As a representative of CUCUC, she worked on the Steering Committee on a CCA/CIDA project for the rebirth and regeneration of credit unions in Ukraine. Part of her role in this capacity was to oversee credit union AGMs in Ukraine.

Olya Sheweli has served as the President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Hamilton Branch since 2004 and as the President of the Ukrainian Women’s Organization since 2012. She is also a member of the Executive of St. Vladimir’s Cathedral in Hamilton.

Olya Sheweli is a licensed real estate broker practicing her profession for approximately twenty four years.