Steve Schuler is an executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Bank. As CFO, Steve has management responsibility for accounting policy and systems, financial analysis, planning and internal reporting and external reporting and information technology.

Prior to joining FHLB Des Moines in 2006, Steve was chief financial officer, treasurer and secretary for Iowa Wireless Services. This followed a long and distinguished career at Brenton Banks from 1977 to 2001 when Brenton Banks were acquired by Wells Fargo. Steve began his tenure at Brenton as an internal audit manager and held a variety of positions with Brenton Banks eventually serving as the corporate senior vice president, chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer. Steve is a Certified Public Accountant and received his B.S. degree in Industrial Administration from Iowa State University.

Dusan Stojanovic is a senior vice president and the chief risk officer of FHLB Des Moines. As chief risk officer, Dusan has responsibility for the Bank’s enterprise risk management area, including credit risk, market risk, and operational risk. Dusan joined the Bank in March 2008 as vice president and financial risk officer, and was appointed to chief risk officer in July 2009.

Before joining FHLB Des Moines, Dusan was a senior expert and team leader for quantification and modeling in the Capital Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Dusan began his tenure at the Federal Reserve in 1995 as an associate economist. After eight years on the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, he became a vice governor for banking supervision at the National Bank of Serbia in 2003. Returning to the United States in 2005, Dusan held the position of senior examiner/credit risk modeling specialist in the Risk and Policy Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Dusan received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Belgrade and an M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Washington University.