Business View Magazine | January 2021

304 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2021 Lussier describes as “a very beautiful facility.” In the 2010s, Webster First merged with several other community credit unions, including Saugus Federal, Fitchburg Federal, Winthrop Federal, Filene Federal, Industrial, and Louise Mills Federal. This was followed in 2012 by a branch opening in Hopkinton and most recently, in 2019, a branch in Boylston. Through his work, Lussier expanded the credit union through central Massachusetts all the way to Boston and north to the border of New Hampshire in Maine. He recalls, “We started growing rapidly – merging another six institutions in the Boston area into our portfolio and now we have 17 branches. In total, we are basically $1.2 billion in assets and serve nearly 100,000 people.” When Lussier started as CEO at Webster First there were 28 employees and now there are 270. The credit union started as an ethnically based organization, and although it has branched out and ensures all locations have multilingual staff, it maintains its Polish roots with Polish speaking