Elevations Credit Union executive named to Baldrige board of examiners

BOULDER — Pete Reicks, an executive with Boulder-based Elevations Credit Union, has been appointed to the board of examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, given for organizational innovation and performance excellence.

Elevations Credit Union was awarded this honor in 2014 in the nonprofit category.

Examiners are appointed by the director of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, which manages the award in close conjunction with the private sector.

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Examiners are responsible for reviewing and evaluating applications submitted for the award, as well as other assessment-related tasks. The examiner board has more than 350 members competitively selected from industry, professional, trade, education, health-care and nonprofit (including government) organizations from across the United States.

Reicks leads Elevations Credit Union’s Enterprise Performance Excellence department, which is responsible for business-process management, business analysis and project-management functions. Prior to joining Elevations in 2008, Reicks held a variety of roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

Awards may be given annually to organizations in each of six categories: manufacturing, service, small business, education, health care and nonprofit.

Past Colorado winners of the award include Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley and CH2M Hill Inc. of Denver. In all, 105 awards have been presented to 99 organizations, including six repeat winners. Baldrige served as the U.S. secretary of commerce from 1981 until his death in 1987.