Stiegel

On March 3, one week after the invasion, Buyk’s director of learning, Saren Stiegel, toured eight stores in Chicago.

For Stiegel, it was shocking — she had just been promoted two weeks earlier.

On Wednesday, March 9, Stiegel attended a Zoom farewell with her Russian team.

Stiegel, a single mother who is drawing on savings, is starting her own company, Vokly, to train employees, rather than work for another start-up.

“We have enough capital to survive like this for another four or five pay periods without having to do some serious borrowing,” said Eric W. Stiegel, the credit union’s president and chief executive.