{"id":19824,"date":"2026-08-04T09:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/?p=19824"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:42:00","slug":"matthew-figueroa-joins-sound-credit-union-as-executive-vice-president-chief-financial-risk-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/blog\/matthew-figueroa-joins-sound-credit-union-as-executive-vice-president-chief-financial-risk-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Figueroa se une a Sound Credit Union como Vicepresidente Ejecutivo y Director Financiero y de Riesgos."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"co-flex_row co-flex_row__blue co-flex_row__last co-flex_row__long-form-text\" >\n\t<div class=\"co-flex_row--row co-row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"co-long_form\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"co-long_form--block co-long_form--block__nomedia prow items-start\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"co-long_form--text pcol-md:8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"co-long_form--content\"><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Matthew Figueroa Joins Sound Credit Union as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial &amp; Risk Officer<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TACOMA, Wash. \u2013 August 4, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19826\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/files\/Matt-Figueroa-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Figueroa, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial &amp; Risk Officer at Sound Credit Union\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/files\/Matt-Figueroa-Headshot.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/files\/Matt-Figueroa-Headshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/files\/Matt-Figueroa-Headshot-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/files\/Matt-Figueroa-Headshot-396x396.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/files\/Matt-Figueroa-Headshot-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Figueroa, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial &amp; Risk Officer at Sound Credit Union<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sound Credit Union<\/a> (Sound) announced the appointment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matthew-figueroa-15a83b5b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Figueroa<\/a> as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial &amp; Risk Officer. Figueroa joins Sound&#8217;s executive leadership team with nearly 14 years of experience in the credit union and financial services industries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Figueroa brings extensive expertise in financial strategy, financial planning, budgeting, treasury management, investments, and balance sheet optimization. His leadership and strategic vision will help guide Sound&#8217;s continued growth and support its position as one of Washington state&#8217;s strongest credit unions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Prior to joining Sound, Figueroa served as Vice President, Treasurer &amp; Investment Officer at Golden 1 Credit Union, in Sacramento, California. In that role, he oversaw treasury, investments, liquidity, derivatives, enterprise product pricing, capital and secondary markets, and balance sheet strategy for the $22 billion financial institution. He also served as a strategic advisor to the executive leadership team and business partners across the organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;We are thrilled to welcome Matthew to Sound,&#8221; said Don Clark, President and CEO of Sound Credit Union. &#8220;His depth of financial expertise, strategic leadership and commitment to member-focused growth will be a tremendous asset to our organization. Matthew will play a critical role in maintaining our financial strength and helping us make sound decisions that support our long-term success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Figueroa holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of California, Riverside, and maintains Series 7 and Series 63 licenses. His extensive credit union leadership experience, strategic mindset, and member focus will further strengthen Sound&#8217;s financial leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mas sobre Sound Credit Union<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sound Credit Union se fund\u00f3 en 1940 y hoy es una de las cooperativas de cr\u00e9dito m\u00e1s grandes del estado de Washington. Con 26 sucursales de servicio completo en toda la regi\u00f3n de Puget Sound, Sound ofrece a m\u00e1s de 175,000 miembros apoyo y servicios financieros confiables y de calidad. Sound se gu\u00eda por el prop\u00f3sito de acompa\u00f1ar a sus miembros, empleados y a la comunidad en todas las etapas de la vida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19828,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19824\/revisions\/19828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}