Co-Founder & Partner

FoolProof was developed by the Remar Sutton & Associates team. Remar is a former columnist for The Washington Post, an author, and a nationally-known consumer advocate.

Dateline NBC, Twenty-Twenty, Sixty Minutes, Ted Koppel’s Nightline, CNN, ABC Primetime, Good Morning America, TODAY, CBS Morning News, Newsweek, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS television’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and PEOPLE magazine have all used Sutton as either a consultant, on-air authority, author, or subject.

Sutton is a pro bono consultant to many national consumer organizations, including The Consumers Union, Public Citizen, and the Center for Auto Safety. He is a pro bono expert for many state attorneys general on consumer issues, and has been a faculty member of the Practicing Law Institute.

Sutton’s columns in Credit Union Magazine ran monthly for over ten years. He was a columnist for The Washington Post for thirteen years.

In 1992 Sutton was the national spokesperson for CUNA’s automotive consumer education efforts, and was the author of its “AutoFax” manual for credit unions. His articles on consumer issues regularly appear in hundreds of credit union publications.

Remar serves as the consumer spokesperson for several large credit unions, and his team hosts consumer web sites for these credit unions and others.

Remar is also founder and/or president of several national consumer task forces.

 

Remar’s consumer work with large credit unions:

At DCU, a two-billion dollar credit union in Massachusetts, Remar serves as the national consumer spokesperson. Go to DCU.org, then click on “StreetWise.”

DCU

 

At Educators Credit Union in Racine, Wisconsin, Remar hosts IQ. Head to ECU.com and click on IQ.

Educators CU

 

At Corning Credit union in Corning, New York, Remar and his team host “StraightTalk.” Head to Corningcu.org, then click on “StraightTalk.”

Corning CU

 

At University Federal Credit Union in Austin, Texas, head to the "Learning Center."

UFCU

 

At Elevations Credit union in Boulder, Colorado, Remar hosts “RealityCheck.” Click on the "Reality Check" tab.

Elevations CU

 

E-mail: Remar@foolproofhq.com

Co-Founder & Partner

Will deHoo—known as Will from Holland by students—developed the idea of using highly interactive modules to teach young people financial literacy. Will has been working with FoolProof for over 4 years, and has done the key design on all modules.

Will also works in other consumer areas, and has developed and managed several consumer education projects.

A key project under Will’s supervision was the development of the StopBMA coalition (www.stopbma.com). As supervisor of the StopBMA coalition, Will worked directly with Peter Jennings. Mr. Jennings produced his final ABC news series on this project.

Will has also worked regularly with Former CBS Anchor Walter Cronkite, a personal advisor to Remar Sutton on consumer issues.

Will also serves as one of the spokespersons on all the FoolProof websites.

In the past year alone Will has given over 100 talks in 6 states on financial literacy and the importance of student financial education. He has spoken at high schools, regional conferences, and credit unions in eight states.

E-mail: Will@foolproofhq.com

 

Education Advisor

Mike Sheffer, FoolProof's Director of Education, is an International Baccalaureate Teacher of IB Business and Management at Corning East High School in Corning, New York.

Mike is responsible for coordinating all the testing of FoolProof modules in schools.

Mike is also Business Department Chairperson at Corning East, and is adjunct Professor of Business at Corning Community College. Mike is the Varsity Golf Coach and Varsity Girl’s Basketball Coach.

Mike has been (and still is) involved in public education for over 21 years.

Mike works closely with FoolProof credit unions and FoolProof high schools. He hosts FoolProof’s “Teacher Blog" and he has developed the teacher guides and teacher lesson plans that work with each FoolProof module.

E-mail: Mike@foolproofhq.com

 

Business Development

Renier Dijkhuis holds a degree in outdoor sports from The University of Groningen in Holland. He is a snowboard instructor, canyon guide, and wild-water rafting and kayaking guide, along with his duties as FoolProof's business development manager.

E-mail: Renier@foolproofhq.com

 

Business Development

Jonathan Allan is a graduate of the University of Chicago and has been part of the Foolproof team since the fall of 2006.

Jonathan competed and was a finalist in the New Venture Challenge hosted by the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. Currently, Jonathan is working on development and marketing for Foolproof as well as starting up an international center for global citizenship and participation.

Jonathan is a former teaching assistant at the GSB’s “Intro to Entrepreneurship" course for economically disadvantaged high school students as well as an assistant teacher of social studies at a Southside Chicago Public High School.

E-mail: Jonathan@foolproofhq.com