Emilia Aufmuth
Agency Principal, Elite FI Partners. Leadership, experience, and the role behind the credit union focused extension.
Experience behind the work.
Emilia brings more than two decades of professional experience to Elite FI Partners. Her background includes administration, dealership operations, finance, sales, insurance, agency development, partner service, and national program leadership.
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Emilia provides the operating discipline behind CU Finance Products. Her perspective keeps program design connected to administrator relationships, documentation, implementation ownership, partner support, service consistency, and the day to day processes required to serve members well.
Experience built across operations, people, products, and process.
- 011998
Began in professional administration
Developed an early foundation in organization, management, communication, and process ownership.
- 0211 years
Expanded through dealership operations
Moved into automotive retail, managed key operating responsibilities, gained experience in finance and sales, and became a licensed insurance broker.
- 032013
Launched a general agency with Michael
Helped establish the agency operation, partner relationships, product support, and training infrastructure.
- 042019
Co-founded Elite FI Partners
Now oversees operations and partner support while helping align administrators, internal teams, products, training, and service expectations.
How Emilia approaches the work.
Emilia combines detailed operational management with relationship centered service. Her work focuses on turning strategy into repeatable execution, identifying where responsibilities and handoffs need to be clearer, and making sure partners receive support tailored to their actual needs.
- More than two decades of professional and operating experience
- Dealership finance, sales, administration, and insurance background
- Operational leadership across partner and administrator relationships
- Focus on compliance oversight, service consistency, and execution
Editorial and program perspective
- F&I program operations
- Compliance oversight
- Administrator relations
- Partner service
- Implementation and training support
Operational review perspective
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