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Emmy Winner Mark DeCarlo Announced as Emcee for America’s Credit Union Conference
MADISON, WI (May 6, 2013) CUNA announced that Emmy Award winning Comedian and Food/Travel Expert Mark DeCarlo is slotted as the Master of Ceremonies for the 2013 America’s Credit Union Conference, June 30 – July 3 at the Hilton New York in New York City.
“Mark DeCarlo will make an engaging emcee for this year’s conference,” remarked Todd Spiczenski, Vice President of CUNA Center for Professional Development. “His witty nature and great cultural insights will be a great fit with the ACUC audience.”
DeCarlo has been contributing his charismatic expertise in broadcast for more than 10 years. He currently hosts and produces comedic segments on Chicago’s #1 daytime show, “ABC’s Windy City Live”, in which he celebrates the people, places and off-kilter characters that define the real Chicago. His work on the show won him back-to-back Midwest Emmys in 2011 and 2012.
Prior to his work in Chicago, DeCarlo traveled across 400 cities for four seasons of Travel Channel’s “Taste of America with Mark DeCarlo.” He compiles the experience in his bestselling new book, A Fork on the Road: 400 Cities, 1 Stomach. In 2013, Mark will be chronicling his book/performance tour around the country in a HuffingtonPost.com Travel Blog as well as broadcasting his newly-premiered podcast/radio series, “A Fork on the Road Show.”
America’s Credit Union Conference, praised by attendees as an energizing, forward-thinking event, features the nation’s best business innovators to deliver ideas for growth and the inspiration to drive positive change for credit union movement.
For more information on speakers and sessions at America’s Credit Union Conference, visit events.cuna.org/acuc13.
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With its network of affiliated state credit union leagues, Credit Union National Association (CUNA) serves 90 percent of America’s 7,200 state and federally chartered credit unions, which are owned by more than 96 million consumer members. Credit unions are not-for-profit cooperatives providing affordable financial services to people from all walks of life. For more information about CUNA, visit www.cuna.org or the CUNAverse blog and follow @CUNAverse on Twitter. For more information about credit unions, visit www.aSmarterChoice.org and follow @asmarterchoice on Twitter.