Walter Kish - Candidate for the Board (2014)

Nominee running for one of two (2) at-large positions:

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.  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 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, Ukraine Country Manager with Seagram, and Manager, Project Delivery with the Ontario Ministry of Government Services.  Currently, he is working as a Project Management Consultant on a contract basis.

Mr. Kish has an extensive record of involvement with the Ukrainian community both locally, nationally and internationally.  He is a former President and currently an Executive Member of the Oshawa Branch of the UNF, a former President and Vice-President of the Durham Region Branch of the UCC (KYK), a regular columnist with The New Pathway (Noviy Shliakh) newspaper, a Director of the Canada Ukraine Foundation, a member of the Parish Council of the St. John’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Oshawa, 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.

In 2010 Mr. Kish received the Shevchenko Medal from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress for his lifetime contribution to Ukrainian Community Development.