Faculty
WCMS Faculty
Robin Elledge
Robin Elledge has spent the past 30 years honing her skills as a respected human resources leader and results-oriented change agent. She led HR at Hot Topic, a Fortune Best Places to Work organization. She was also the Chief People Officer at Dine Equity (Dine Global) during a period of complete financial restructuring, reorganization, and …
Megan Freshour
All the way from Florida, Megan Freshour brings her sunny personality to the Filene team as our Innovation Director. Megan joins Filene with a long standing passion for the credit union industry. Starting as a teller at CFE Federal Credit Union while she returned to school she continued to build her career and later became …
Christie Kimbell
With passion, leadership and her sharp business mindset, Christie Kimbell leads Filene’s marketing strategy, account management, events and communities (i3 and Cooperative Trust). She is driving the Filene brand experience across stakeholder groups and providing proven solutions to increase financial wellness across our members organizations. With 18 years of marketing leadership and 12 years in business …
Asha Srikantiah
Asha Srikantiah is a professor at the Hive at the Claremont Colleges, where she teaches human centered design and innovation to students from across the consortium, and beyond. She is passionate about building new initiatives that tackle real human problems, and excited by the intersection of business strategy and design. Prior to joining the faculty …
Cristina Miller
Cristina Miller is a Partner at SW&M, with over 20 years of experience. Cristina is the leader of the firm’s Employment Law practice group. She advises financial institution management teams on all aspects of employment and personnel matters. This consists of ensuring clients are up to date on any rules or regulations, with focus on …
Michael Kuehlwein
Dr. Mike Kuehlwein received his B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College in 1980, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. in 1988. In the fall of 1987, he started teaching in the economics department at Pomona College, where he is now the George E. and Nancy O. Moss Professor of …
William J. Adler
Bill Adler is a Senior Partner leading SW&M’s Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance practice groups. Bill joined the firm in 1984 as a law clerk and became a Partner only four years later. Before embarking on a legal career, Bill was a CPA at a Big 4 accounting firm. Bill assists financial institutions at the …
Michelle Bligh
Dr. Michelle Bligh is Executive Vice President and Provost of Claremont Graduate University. Prior to becoming Provost, she served five years as Dean of the School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation and as Professor of Organizational Behavior. From 2014-2016 she served as Professor of Leadership at NEOMA Business School in France, where she was …
Bill Hampel
Following a long and productive career as Chief Economist and Chief Policy Officer of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) in Washington DC, Bill Hampel is now an economic consultant specializing in explaining trends in the economy and financial institutions to business leaders. Bill served as Interim President/CEO of CUNA from June to September 2014. He was …