Sarah Canepa Bang has been the Chief Executive Officer of Financial Service Centers Cooperative, Inc.(FSCC) since 1999.  FSCC is the international credit union shared branch network founded in 1990.  During her tenure, FSCC has more than quadrupled in the number of credit unions, branches, and states involved in shared branching.  In that time, FSCC has expanded traditional shared branching to six countries and expanded the technology to include full-service kiosks, call centers, disaster recovery and remote deposits. In June 2006 Sarah successfully completed negotiations to bring FSCC shared branching to more than 2,200 7-Eleven stores nationwide.

Sarah is a frequent speaker at national credit union events on emerging technologies.  She has been a faculty member of the Western Intermediate Banking School and a faculty member of the Oregon Bankers’ Directors’ College.  From 1990 to 1995, Sarah was a faculty member at Portland State University.  Since 1999, Sarah has served on the Board of the Richard Myles Johnson Foundation supporting financial literacy in California.  She is a director of the Applied Research Institute funding practical research projects for credit unions. 

Sarah is a passionate supporter of the Credit Unions for Kids program. In June 2006 she was named to the board of the Credit Union Miracle Day foundation in Washington, DC which raises funds for the Children’s Miracle Network. In December, 2006, she was appointed to the Credit Unions for Kids Advisory Board for the Children’s Miracle Network in Salt Lake City.

Sarah has received a number of awards including the National Society of Fundraising Executives Philanthropy award for CUs for Kids, the Credit Union Women’s Association’s Anna Read award, the American Society of Association Executive’s Golden Circle award, the Credit Union National Association’s Blockbuster award for community relations and awards from the Public Relations Society of America for public relations and crisis communication. 

Prior to joining FSCC in 1999, Sarah was the Executive Vice President of the Oregon Credit Union League and Affiliates where she oversaw the operations of the League trade association, its for-profit services corporation and insurance company.  At the same time she was the chief operating officer of CU ACCESS, an ATM and shared branch network, and Automated Item Management, the northwest’s largest and most successful check processing operation.  Sarah also served as chairman of the Association of Credit Union League Executives’ Fee Supported Services Committee.

Sarah began her career in 1983 at the Credit Union National Association in Madison, Wisconsin.  During the mid-eighties she served as Education Director for the Oregon Credit Union League.  In the late-eighties she joined Massachusetts CUNA and the New Hampshire Credit Union League as Vice President of Human Resources.  She returned to the Oregon Credit Union League in 1990. 

In her spare time Sarah is a professional artist with paintings in several galleries in the Northwest and private homes in the U.S. and  as far away as Florence, Italy.  Her work has been featured on the cover of Country Pleasures magazine. 

Sarah holds degrees in communication and education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.