40 Under Forty 2020: Johan Romero Luna
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Johan Romero Luna
- Title: Assistant vice president & area manager
- Company: Workers Credit Union, in Worcester
- Residence: Grafton
- Birthplace: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- College: Instituto Tecnologico De Santo Domingo
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In his home country of the Dominican Republic, Johan Romero Luna worked at an Army hospital and in pharmaceutical sales while completing his business degree at night. When he, his wife and young daughter arrived in the U.S. in 2010, he initially struggled to land job interviews and find work.
In a short time, he started as a personal banker at Sovereign Bank, and he hasn’t looked back. He quickly found roles with increasing responsibilities in services, collections and branch management. Today, Luna is an assistant vice president and an area manager for Workers Credit Union, which he joined in 2019. It has been at Workers Credit Union where Luna has helped create and launch a new guide for the credit union’s mission called the Workers Way, and early this year he opened the firm’s first Worcester branch. The branch is one of two, along with another in Hudson, that has what’s called a PlanIt arrangement, which gives customers one-on-one financial planning. Giving financial guidance isn’t something limited to his working hours. He’s taught educational seminars on elder financial abuse at Whitney Place in Westborough, an assisted living center, and worked with Save for America, a group helping kids save money.
What aspect of pre-pandemic life did you take for granted? In-person contact with loved ones. A big part of being human is to live in a community, and your family becomes that first step to develop yourself as a social being.
Who is most responsible for your success? My mother. She is the strongest person I know; she taught me and my siblings to be strong and self-dependent.
What will the statue they eventually build of you say? He wanted to help create a better world for all.
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