SPARTANBURG, SC, October 28, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Wen Hemingway, DBA, CTP, has been recognized for achievement in business and finance.

Dr. Hemingway is a financial executive whose career spans nearly four decades in commercial banking, treasury management, corporate finance and institutional financial leadership. Her expertise includes financial administration, cash management and treasury, capital and tax planning, investment oversight, mergers and acquisitions, enterprise system conversions, regulatory compliance and organizational turnarounds. A Certified Treasury Professional, she has served as chief financial officer for organizations in financial services, manufacturing, higher education and the association sector.

Dr. Hemingway began her career in 1986 as a banking officer at NBD Bank N.A. in Detroit. She went on to serve as vice president, sales representative (1994 to 1997) and vice president, regional treasury manager (1997 to 1999) at National City Bank, followed by vice president, treasury director (1999 to 2002) and vice president, director of public funds (2002 to 2003) at Fifth Third Bank.

From 2003 to 2007, she was senior vice president of commercial services at Citizens Banking Corporation in Flint, Michigan, which in 2006 ranked as the 45th largest banking corporation in the United States with approximately $23 billion in assets. She held systemwide responsibility for public funds, treasury management, specialty finance, commercial client services, product development and the Genesee County commercial loan group, and participated in the bank's credit committee and shareholder reporting. She redesigned the bank's commercial delivery model around a market-segmented, product-led strategy that produced more than $500,000 in positive financial impact in its first year. She rebuilt a declining commercial deposit portfolio, growing commercial deposits by more than $500 million over five years, and increased fee income by $400,000 year over year through new commercial products. She also formed a public funds banking team that wrote the credit underwriting standards for nonprofit lending and bond underwriting, played a key leadership role in two bank acquisitions and one divestiture, and became a sought-after speaker on electronic lockboxes, e-commerce and emerging banking technologies.

From 2008 to 2013, Dr. Hemingway was chief financial officer of Shadowood Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of diesel emissions converters. She structured the company's incorporation, financing, accounting and operations, secured a $16 million research award and a $2.5 million grant, earned clean audits from both the granting agency and the company's external auditor, and operated with a positive margin and zero debt before winding the company down in a profitable position. As an independent consultant during the same period, she advised community banks on portfolio realignment, branch divestitures, product line profitability and fee income growth.

From 2013 to 2019, she served as president of Baker College of Flint, the largest campus in the Baker College system, where she also acted as chief financial officer for a $25 million annual budget, directing budgeting, expenditures, the Form 990 review and all audits. Her financial results for the campus included $230,000 in budget reductions through a redesigned student services model, a $640,000 first-year increase in bookstore profitability through outsourcing, approximately $420,000 in energy savings and more than $10 million raised for campus facility improvements. She also right-sized the campus footprint, managing the related regulatory reporting, closures and asset sales. At the system level, she served on the finance committee and the Jewell Education Foundation board, which oversaw an investment portfolio of more than $400 million, and acted as a system signatory and approval authority for investments.

Through The Registry, Dr. Hemingway served as interim vice president for finance at Michigan Technological University from 2019 to 2020. There she restructured the university's long-term debt, led a five-year financial modeling project, directed the development of federal fringe benefit and facilities and administration rates, and created the Finance and Audit Committee charter.

From 2020 to 2024, she was chief financial officer of the League of Southeastern Credit Unions and Affiliates, a three-state credit union league operating 22 for-profit and not-for-profit companies doing business in 34 states. She led a financial recovery effort that used forensic accounting to resolve longstanding discrepancies and audit deficiencies, achieving a clean audit within one year. She built the metrics modeling and bank financing structures that funded the organization's rapid growth, as net assets increased from $32 million in 2019 to $48 million in 2022. She also realigned two finance and accounting staffs following a complex multistate merger, led an enterprise resource planning conversion and consolidated banking relationships across multiple states into a single cash management system.

Since March 2025, Dr. Hemingway has served as chief financial and operations officer of Catapult Employers Association, a multistate employers association whose for-profit and not-for-profit companies do business in 41 states. She oversees consolidated financial reporting, cash management, budgeting and tax and capital planning, manages investment activities as primary liaison to the board audit and investment committees, leads merger activity, directed the organization's ERP platform conversion and established a foundation, including its fundraising, grant distribution and operations.

Dr. Hemingway earned a Doctor of Business Administration with a specialization in finance from Baker College, a Master of Business Administration in accounting with a minor in international finance from Wayne State University (1990) and a Bachelor of Science from Oakland University (1987). She is a Certified Treasury Professional and an AFP Elite Member (2025) through the Association for Financial Professionals, holds Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification and completed the University of Michigan Executive Management Program in Leading Positive Organizational Change. She is affiliated with CFO Group Charlotte, the Association for Financial Professionals and The Registry.

Her board service has drawn heavily on her financial expertise. She has served as trustee, board treasurer, finance committee chair and audit committee member at McLaren Oakland; board treasurer, finance committee chair and executive committee member at Goodwill Industries of Mid-Michigan; and board and finance committee member at the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan, where she led the redesign of its investment policy. She has also served as regent, Flint Campus board chair, system trustee and Jewell Education Foundation trustee at Baker College, and in leadership roles with United Way of Genesee County, Lapeer I-69 Development Corporation, PALnet, the Genesee Local College Access Network, the Flint and Genesee Chamber of Commerce and GST Michigan Works! An active Rotarian with The Rotary Club of Greenville, she volunteers with the Greenville YMCA, animal shelters, church backpack programs and charity marathons.

Her honors include the Award for Business Process Improvement from the League of Southeastern Credit Unions (2021), the Outstanding Service and Leadership Award from Oakland County (2018), the YWCA Women of Achievement Award (2011), the Woman's Achievement Award for Genesee County and an award from Baker College (2007). She considers the YWCA award especially meaningful because it recognized both her professional contributions and her community service during years of balancing family, career and volunteerism.

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