Management Team

Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle has been working to provide universal access to knowledge for more than twenty-five years.

Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet’s first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server).

In 1996 Kahle founded the Internet Archive, which may be the world’s largest online digital library. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet, which helps catalog the Web, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999.

Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology  in 1982.

Jim Conroy has spent his career in sales as well as managing sales people within the Credit Union space. He lives in Williamston, MI, with his wife, daughter and grandson.

Jacques Cressaty is Director of Finance at Internet Archive. A long time transplant from France, Jacques joined the Internet Archive in 2001. He brings financial and administrative expertise, as well as a highly developed sense of order to his position. Jacques is a published and exhibited landscape photographer and lives with his wife, Susan Howard, a painter, in San Francisco.

After heading up CRM departments for most of the money center banks for 20 years and then starting his own strategic analytic company with a blue chip list of Fortune 100 clients, Jordan decided that the system just is not working for us and is on a quest to transform banking from profit-centric to people-centric.

His goal is to serve the under-served with viable, affordable high-tech financial products and to assist members in gaining access to capital and building credit to lead them out of, not into, debt.

Jordan has an MBA in Marketing/Information Systems from NYU.  In addition to numerous speaking engagements in the US and abroad, he was a contributing author to the book “New Age of Financial Services Marketing” and was an adjunct professor at NYU’s Graduate Business School.  

Carla chairs the supervisory committee of the IAFCU.

Carla Decker joined DC Federal Credit Union (d/b/a DGEFCU) as President/CEO in 2001. Originally an employee-based credit union, DGEFCU acquired a community charter focused on serving the Latino population in Washington, D.C.

Carla was named “Professional of the Year” by the Maryland & D.C. Credit Union Association  and “CU Grassroots Activist of the Year” by the National Association of Federal Credit Unions.

Carla serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Social & Economic Development, a non-profit that expands capacity and sustainability in vulnerable communities worldwide.

In September 2012 Carla was appointed as Chairperson to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s  inaugural Credit Union Advisory Council.

Carla was born and raised in Lima, Perú. She holds a Master’s degree in International Commerce & Politics; her undergraduate studies concentrated in Finance.