Enter the 2007 Diamonds
Hundreds of entries, 35 categories … and one competition in Las Vegas that’s got nothing to do with luck.
Do your credit union’s marketing efforts entertain and perform? Enter the industry’s premier awards competition — the 2007 Diamond Awards. We’ll put the spotlight on a lineup of dazzling winners at the 14th Annual CUNA Marketing & Business Development Council Conference in Las Vegas.
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Meet us in Vegas this March
Event Highlights:
- 5 PreConference Workshops
- Recognition Dinner & Awards
- Diamond Awards Ceremony
- Third Annual CMBDC Conference Silent Auction
Las Vegas Attractions
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Speakers in the Spotlight
Keynote Address: Brian Collins
Brian Collins is the Chief Creative Officer of the
Brand Innovation Group at Ogilvy & Mather
Worldwide. BIG is a laboratory for design and
storytelling, where writers, architects, artists,
filmmakers and strategists from around the
world collaborate to invent the future. Their
work includes the launch of Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty; the fifteen story
Hershey chocolate factory in Times Square; new design programs for
Coca-Cola; Yahoo!; National Geographic; Rainforest Alliance; Mattel; Kodak;
Lionsgate Films; and American Express. Brian teaches at the School of Visual
Arts and has spoken globally on design and innovation, including at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Last year his team was named the peak
performer in American Design by
Fast Company magazine.
Meet your Master of Ceremonies for the week:
Keith Matheny
From the moment Keith Matheny takes the stage, he will captivate, amuse, inform and inspire your audience. A creative speaker and entertainer, he shares with his audiences the keys to help unlock imaginary boundries and mysteries of the human mind. Over the past decade, Matheny has toured nationally with a unique brand of motivation that combines audience participation with fun demonstrations of the power and ability of the mind. His high-energy show combines audience participation, goodnatured humor and motivational words that are guaranteed to refresh and inspire, with messages geared toward helping people improve self esteem, gain confidence in their abilities and achieve results far beyond the norm.
General Session:
Dennis Dollar

Dennis Dollar is the principal partner in Dollar Associates, LLC, a full-service consulting group focusing on credit unions and the organizations that serve them. Dollar was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board in 2001and has served on the three-member Board since being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1997. He was a member of the NCUA Board during the most far-reaching period of legislative and regulatory change in the history of the American credit union movement — overseeing the making of all regulations for federal credit unions and the administration of the federal insurance fund covering approximately 9500 federal and state chartered credit unions in the United States. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) and is a a former twoterm member of the Mississippi House of Representatives. Prior to his appointment to the NCUA Board, Dollar served as President and CEO of what is now the Gulf Coast Community Federal Credit Union. During his credit union career, his credit union won the national Dora Maxwell Social Responsibility Award from CUNA for its asset category and numerous local and state growth and service awards.
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