Candidates to the Board - Walter Kish (Володимир Кісь)

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.

Walter Kish is running for an at-large position on the board.

Mr. Walter Kish has been a member of the credit union for over 40 years. In 2000, he was elected to the credit union’s Audit Committee and became its Chair in 2003. He has served on the Credit Union’s Board for the past five years.

Mr. Kish graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1973 specializing in Mathematics and Computer Science and has worked for a number of large multinational companies in senior management positions, including Senior Project Manager with Celestica, Regional Operations Manager with Xerox, Vice President and General Manager with Allied Van Lines and Ukraine Country Manager with Seagram. Currently, Mr. Kish is Manager, Project Delivery with the Ontario Ministry of Government Services.

From 2004 to 2006 Mr. Kish moved to Ukraine to manage a Canadian government CIDA foreign aid project aimed at helping strengthen the credit union system in Ukraine.

Mr. Kish has an extensive record of involvement with the Ukrainian community both locally, nationally and internationally.  He is a former President of the Oshawa Branch of the UNF, a former President and Vice-President of the Durham Region Branch of the UCC (KYK), a member of the Parish Council of the St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Oshawa, a regular columnist with The New Pathway (Noviy Shliakh) newspaper, a Director of the Canada Ukraine Foundation, and a Director of the Ukrainian Journalists Association of North America. He is a past National President of the Ukrainian National Youth Federation of Canada.