Valerie Benson, CUCE
Valerie Benson is a well-respected individual with 25 years of experience in Business Lending, Commercial Real Estate, Leadership Strategy, Development and more. She has proven abilities as a passionate, motivating and effective thought-leader throughout the financial services industry. She is widely acknowledged for her professional performance and often credited for her contributions in cultivating impactful and lasting relationships.
After a successful 20 years in the Commercial Banking space, Valerie transitioned her career to the Credit Union sector. Since that time, she successfully built and implemented a business lending division for a $1.4B asset size credit union in Georgia. Throughout this process, she received accolades both internally as well as externally from governing regulatory bodies. In the past few years, she has given her efforts to more intimately serve the communities represented within this sector. Valerie knows that the core credit union beliefs of community and service mirror her own and is fully invested in the mission to expand Business Lending expertise across the Credit Union footprint.
Valerie is a winner of the J. Stevens Walraven Scholarship (awarded to only one individual in the state of Georgia each year) and is CUCE certified. She has a degree in Business Management from Shorter College and completed the Graduate School of Banking at LSU, both with honors while working full time in Business Lending.
Valerie’s most beloved life role is being the mother of two boys. She deeply values family and is not afraid of hard and efficient work. She and her children regularly serve within their community in a variety of ways. She is a perpetual learner, lover of people, thrives on a good laugh, is regularly adventurous, and spends as much time as possible in the great outdoors.
She is committed to sharing her wealth of knowledge and experience in Business Lending to help Credit Unions develop and grow this line of business effectively, efficiently and with excellence.
