RECEIVABLES MANAGEMENT - Key Persons

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• President

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• Director / Kino Financial Co. LLC
• President and Co - Founder of Kino Financial Co

Amber Russo is President and co-founder of Kino Financial Co., LLC., a regional debt buyer based in Arizona. She is responsible for overseeing all facets of the portfolio acquisition process, agency and legal network management, and business operations. Amber has dedicated over sixteen years to the receivables management industry as an advocate for state and regional debt buyers. Amber's career has taken her from Director of Operations for mid-sized collection law firms, COO of a well-established receivables acquisition company, a role where she was responsible for developing and managing a national legal network, to her current partnership in Kino Financial Co., LLC. Amber has participated in the procurement and management of more than 150 portfolio purchases. Over the past few years, Amber has worked with the RMAI organization as a committee member on various committees including State Legislative and Editorial, and as an advocate for RMAI's legislative fundraising efforts. Amber also contributes to the RMAI Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion task force and was recently appointed to the RMAI Certification Council. Outside of the receivables industry, Amber is a participating member of The University of Arizona Alumni Association and serves on the Wishmaker's Fundraising Council for Make-A-Wish Arizona.

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• President - Elect / Cavalry Portfolio Services, LLC

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• Chief Compliance Officer for Security Credit Services
• Incumbent
• Secretary / Security Credit Services, LLC

Brett Soldevila serves as the Chief Compliance Officer for Security Credit Services, LLC, a receivables management company for consumer and commercial defaulted receivables. His responsibilities include ensuring the Company complies with regulatory requirements, implementing policies and procedures, managing internal and external audits, and overseeing investor related functions. Prior to joining Security Credit Services, Brett served in the internal audit department of a global consumer and commercial services company, and in the audit & enterprise risk services department of a professional services firm. Brett is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Certified Receivables Compliance Professional. Brett was elected to the Receivables Management Association International (RMAI) Board of Directors in 2017; and re-elected in 2019. He previously served as the Chair of the RMAI Certification Council and has also served as Chair for the Council's Standards Committee.

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• Director / Crown Asset Management, LLC
• Founder and CEO of Crown Asset Management, LLC

Brian K. Williams is the founder and CEO of Crown Asset Management, LLC ("CAM"), an Atlanta based specialty finance company focused on the acquisition, management, and recovery of distressed retail assets. Since CAM's founding in 2004, Mr. Williams has successfully grown the business from a small five-person operation, deploying a few hundred thousand dollars per annum, to deploying substantial capital into more than 500 portfolios, totaling more than $10 billion of face value. His primary duties include overseeing the capital raising efforts for the company, having raised more than $500 million to support the purchase of receivables portfolios, strategic planning, and management of the overall business operations. During CAM's formative years, he was largely responsible for establishing, managing, and cultivating client and vendor relationships. As an advocate for CAM and the ARM industry, Mr. Williams has been a representative by sitting on multiple industry and legislative committees, including serving as the Georgia Co-Chairman for the RMAI State Legislative Committee, all the while cultivating strong local and state legislator as well as regulatory relationships along the way. Most recently, he has worked directly with both 2020 GA Republican Senate Campaigns to establish a donation conduit for all RMAI members to support these critical legislative elections. Mr. Williams earned his BS in Finance from Florida State University ("FSU") in 1997. He later spent six years (2011 - 2017) as a member of the Seminole Boosters Inc. National Board of Directors and remains highly involved at the university. He currently serves on the FSU College of Business Board of Governors and the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, which is part of the College of Business school of entrepreneurship. Before founding CAM, he began his financial career in 1997 by obtaining his National Association of Securities Dealers licenses and becoming a Registered Representative with Merrill Lynch. He later left Merrill Lynch and began working for First Union National Bank/First Union Securities in Atlanta. At First Union, he continued to expand his focus in financial services to include investment advisory, consumer, commercial lending and many other banking and investment services. For nearly four years during the early 2000's, Mr. Williams served as a consultant to another ARM company, where he advised on various strategic financial and operational issues. As a "reformed banker" and debt purchaser for the past two decades, I believe strongly that the ARM industry, and specifically the continued existence of a robust marketplace where originating creditors have an outlet to recover a portion of their losses through debt sales, remains a critical facet of our credit ecosystem. Without this functioning debt sale marketplace, consumers and small businesses would find themselves with fewer options of available credit at reasonable interest rates. I believe my experience building and running CAM through multiple economic cycles provides a unique perspective and ability to assist RMAI, and its membership, through the post pandemic cycle. The ARM Industry, and specifically the RMAI, have been such a big part of my life over the past two decades. The association and its membership have provided me countless memories, business relationships, and friendships, and I would like the opportunity to give back to RMAI all it has given to me by representing this membership as a member of the RMAI Board of Directors.

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• Admin
• Executive Director / Receivables Management Association
• RMAI Executive Director

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• Treasurer / Resurgent Holdings

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• Director
• Incumbent
• Vice President of Legal and Compliance for TrueAccord

Kelly Knepper-Stephens is Vice President of Legal and Compliance for TrueAccord. Her work focuses on government regulation, compliance, and civil litigation. Kelly serves on the Board of Directors for the Receivables Management Association International and is an ACA Certified Instructor. She also served as a SER for the Arbitration and Debt Collection Rulemakings. Her podcast Two DEBTicated Attorneys can be found on podbean. Collection Advisor Magazine named Kelly one of the 20 Most Powerful Women in Collections in 2018. My name is Kelly Knepper-Stephens and I am a candidate for the RMAI Board of Directors certified collection agency seat. I am the Vice President of Legal and Compliance for TrueAccord Corp. a third party debt collection company leveraging machine learning. I have the privilege of working with several RMAI member companies, both as your debt collector and through our mutual participation in the RMAI. I received my RMAI Certification in March of 2015, and in late 2018 upon joining TrueAccord helped the company obtain Certification.

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• Director / Absolute Resolutions, Corp.
• Incumbent

Laura Jensen joined Absolute Resolutions Corp., a leading purchaser of distressed consumer assets in the U.S., in 2012 as its VP of Business Development. She has served in progressively more senior roles and was appointed as Chief Acquisitions Officer in 2019. Laura began her career in the ARM industry in 2002 and has been responsible for many areas of business operations including business development, portfolio sales and acquisitions, vendor management, recovery management, project management, compliance, and client services. Laura has been invited to speak at ARM events both nationally and internationally. Over the last decade Laura has volunteered for several Receivables Management Association International (RMAI) committees including Federal and State Legislative/Regulatory, Education, Business Development, Editorial, Legislative Fundraising and Membership. Laura received her Certified Receivables Compliance Professional certification in 2019. She served as a member of the 2013 CFPB Rule Making Task Force and has participated in several advocacy days in Washington, D.C. In 2020 Laura was elected by RMAI membership to its Board of Directors. Laura received her BA from The University of Northern Colorado. She is a certified paralegal and a graduate of the Leadership Program of the Rockies where she currently serves as a member of their Advisory Council. In 2018 she was recognized by the Colorado League of Charter Schools as an "A+ advocate" for her volunteer and advocacy work related to public charter schools. Laura enjoys golfing and traveling and is an enthusiastic home cook. She currently lives in the Twin Cities with her husband, Aaron, and son Britton.

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• Director / Second Round LP
• Incumbent

A long-time receivables management industry executive with experience holding positions with banks, financing companies, and debt buyers over his career spanning more than 35 years. Mike has represented debt buyers in their business development efforts assisting with the acquisition of more than $40 Billion in receivables throughout his career. As an experienced acquisition and operations executive, Mike has held roles including deal sourcing, due diligence, contract negotiation, and portfolios sales. He has also held positions in collections operations with a focus on performance management, compliance and technology deployment. Mike Colby is also an active member of the Receivables Management Association International Legislative Fundraising Committee and Membership Committee. Previously serving the association on the Business Development Committee and the certifications programs Administration and Budget Committee.

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• Contact RMAI 's Director of Certification & Education

Contact RMAI's Director of Certification & Education, Shannon Parod at (916) 482-2590 or sparod@rmaintl.org.