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Casco FCU is happy to share some exciting news about two employees. Alex Botayev has been promoted to Vice President of Finance and Carrie Wallace is taking on the additional role of Card Services Manager. Her new title is Service Center & Card Services Manager.
Alex Botayev
Botayev started as an Accounting Manager with Casco FCU in 2021. Since this time, he has been the lead on all critical accounting tasks—offering support for many new products and services. He graduated from Thomas College with a Bachelor of Science in Managerial Accounting and then went on to earn his MBA in Accounting.
His previous experience includes working at Baker, Newman, Noyes in Portland. He first started in tax, with a specialization in high-net worth individuals, gift returns, fiduciary returns, estate returns, multi-state returns, and foreign taxes. He then worked in audit and had exposure to different industries such as retail, banking, and insurance. Outside of work, he also has knowledge about programming and coding.
Botayev shares that the team at the credit union is his favorite thing about working there. He likes how understanding the people are and how they help each other out, in and out of work.
Carrie Wallace
Wallace started with Casco FCU in 2020 as a Loan Officer. A few months later, she was promoted to Branch Manager and then to Service Center Manager in 2023. She has been working tirelessly to ensure the entire service center team is trained in both credit and debit cards.
She has experience in varying customer service roles over her 20-year career. She worked for an asset management company as their VP of Closing and Title Operations for 13 years, selling foreclosed properties throughout the United States for a national bank. Following this position, she worked for Mortgage Network as a Loan Closer.
Wallace’s favorite things about working at Casco FCU are helping our members and the credit union’s team. She says Casco is an extended family for both members and staff.