Doug Wadsworth

President & CEO

Tri-CU Credit Union

What has been your/your company’s most significant success over the last 12 months?

As the only small and local credit union in town, making a positive difference for our members of particularly modest means – like helping somebody of modest means achieve their dreams of homeownership (when nobody else would approve them).

On which boards do you currently serve? With which nonprofits do you volunteer?

Humanitarian Fund of the Rotary Club of Columbia Center; bass guitar player for our Rotarian charity event band, the Soup Dogs (raising money to fight human trafficking); treasurer of Bike Tri-Cities; chairman and president of the Endangered Small Credit Union Defense; church employment specialist and facilitator for a personal finance educational group.

What was your first job, and what did you learn from it?

Alaska commercial fisherman (from age 8): hard work and resourcefulness, even in the worst weather and with red jellyfish dripping down onto your face and into your eyes.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received?

Treat people as you would like to be treated.

Name one item on your bucket list.

I want to visit the Middle East (Jordan, Jerusalem, Egypt, etc.).

Name one thing about yourself you want people to know.

I actually had normal hair and eyebrows a few years ago (alopecia to thank).

What is your favorite Tri-Cities restaurant and what do you order there?

Endive Eatery, everything is amazing.

What has you most excited about the future of your company or industry?

I started this new organization, Endangered Small Credit Union Defense, last year, to help ensure small credit unions (like me) don’t go extinct in 10 years (which was the current trajectory), and I feel like we are making real progress on legislative and regulatory advocacy fronts.