Benjamin Maxim , Chief Digital Strategy & Innovation Officer at MSUFCU , on helping drive innovation to better serve local communities
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Benjamin Maxim , Chief Digital Strategy & Innovation Officer at MSUFCU , on helping drive innovation to better serve local communities
It ’ s not often you find someone who has worked at one company for over a decade , but Benjamin Maxim , Michigan State University Federal Credit Union ’ s ( MSUFCU ) Chief Digital Strategy & Innovation Officer , is one of them .
Now in his 16th year at MSUFCU , Maxim ’ s first role there was as a web developer . Joining at the height of the recession after the collapse of global housing markets in 2007 , Maxim says he was “ just happy to have a job ” at the time .
Initially “ planning to stick it out until finding something else ” he wanted to do , little did Maxim know he had already landed at the organisation that would define the rest of his career .
“ I immediately fell in love with the credit union mission of people helping people and felt it gave meaning to a career in technology that might be absent at other bigger tech firms . I had only ever had an account with a credit union , never a bank , so it was probably meant to be .”
A series of mini careers amid professional and business growth From web developer to Chief Digital Strategy & Innovation Officer , Maxim has been able to keep his drive by being challenged with new experiences during his time at MSUFCU .
“ I have a leader who I ’ ve reported to for most of my career , who has been so
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