
PACU’s Certified Financial Counselors
By meeting with one of our Certified Credit Union Financial Counselors*, you’re more equipped to make sound financial decisions.
Who are Our Certified Financial Counselors, and Why are They Important?
There are countless obstacles and opportunities that you may encounter when trying to reach your financial goals. Meeting with one of our Certified Credit Union Financial Counselors* makes you more equipped to make sound financial decisions. With their expertise, you will gain the required financial knowledge to put you on a path of financial success, such as budgeting, consolidating or reducing your debt, developing a savings plan for your first home or determining the best path to get you in your dream car.
The best part is that this is a complimentary service for our members.
Our Certified Financial Counselors Program provides an affordable way for you to receive quality guidance as opposed to for-profit financial counseling companies, independent research from potentially unreliable sources or other less desirable ways to obtain information that may put you at risk.

Meet our Certified Credit Union Financial Counselors*
Schedule an appointment with one of these certified financial counselors today!

April Young, CCUFC
- Branch Manager
- PACU University Branch
- 4997 Home Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106

Brian Ferraro, CCUFC
- Branch Manager
- PACU Mooresville Branch
- 139 S. Cardigan Way, Mooresville, NC 28117

Carrieanne Holt, CCUFC
- Branch Manager
- PACU Boyer Branch
- 2830 Boyer Street, Charlotte, NC 28208

Debi Conway, CCUFC
- AVP of Branch Services
- PACU Advantage Way Branch
- 3530 Advantage Way, Winston-Salem, NC 27103

Maleia Brown, CCUFC
- Branch Manager
- PACU Advantage Way Branch
- 3530 Advantage Way, Winston-Salem, NC 27103

Additional Certified Credit Union Financial Counselors*
These Piedmont Advantage employees also hold the CCUFC credential and serve our membership behind the scenes. They are empowered within their departments to advise and guide members every day to help them make the best possible financial decisions for themselves and their families.

Lisa Kinney, CCUFC
- Business Intelligence Specialist

Cathie Yates, CCUFC
- Collections Specialist

Michelle Duncan, CCUFC
- Insurance Specialist II

James Moore, CCUFC
- Vice President

Zainab Black, CCUFC
- E-Commerce Specialist

Donna Gantt, CCUFC
- Lending Supervisor
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Headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and founded in 1949 within the aviation industry, Piedmont Advantage Credit Union (PACU) serves member-owners, who reside, work, worship, attend school or operate a business in one of the six counties it serves in North Carolina or who are employed by one of its many employer companies. These six counties are Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Iredell, Mecklenburg and Rockingham.
Disclosures
*Certified Credit Union Financial Counselors do not provide investment, legal, tax or insurance advice. They also do not provide advice regarding public benefits or assistance programs.