Vermont Federal launches a career, a database, and a BI department
How the Green Mountain State cooperative cultivated talent from within while building out analytics capabilities.
Business intelligence and Nick Gallerani have grown up together at Vermont Federal Credit Union($591.3M, Burlington, VT).
Gallerani joined the credit union as a teller after graduating with a finance degree from the University of Vermont in 2014. A few weeks later, he interviewed with chief financial officer Jean Giard to become the credit union’s first data analyst.
“Jean articulated that the role was new and did not have many set parameters,” Gallerani says. “She let me know that I would be working closely with management — and every department of the institution — making the position a great opportunity to build my knowledge while helping the credit union in a meaningful way.”
And build he did. As the current director of business intelligence, Gallerani oversees an operation that provides data and dashboards that inform decision-making and strategic thinking — including for an upcoming digital transformation — at Vermont Federal. Giard is now president and CEO.
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