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Management Team

Michael G. Kolodin - Managing Partner

Michael G. Kolodin has been in the BPO / collections industry since 1979. He has owned and operated several collection agencies during that period specializing in consumer, corporate and medical debt.

As a debt purchaser, Michael has purchased hundreds of millions of dollars in face value debt directly from originators and brokers and in 2005 started setting up turn key collection call center operations overseas. Michael's duties will consist of supervising and running the daily operations of all domestic and international call centers and the debt placements,
sales and purchases.

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Marty Halpern - Partner

Marty Halpern is the owner/founder and CEO of National Check Trust, Inc., and has been involved in the check guarantee industry for over 26 years.
He graduated from of New Paltz University and started his career in sales and sales management in the publishing and the payment transaction industry. He entered the check industry as a National Sales Manager for a competitor, and in 1991 open the doors to NCT. He has a wealth of experience in check guarantee solutions, operations, collections and business development. He has continued to provide National Check Trust with his invaluable experience ensuring the growth and enduring profitability of this private company. He has provided his organization a vision to be the 'premier organization in our industry' with a strong focus on a high ticket niche market. This clarity and the development of an excellent support staff has been a overwhelming reason for the continued success of NCT.
In 2008 he and the management team have made the decision to open a collection company called CSI, with the goal to do an excellent job for all future clients.
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Sandeep Bhatnagar - Director of Overseas Operations

Sandeep has over 18 years of experience with various ITES technologies, Telecom, Software and Manufacturing organizations in UK and in India. He has worked for organizations like Bharti, Stratsoft Inc, Telecom Italia and Air Liquide. He has vast experience in Operations, Business Development, Technology issue resolutions, structuring and establishing business organizations in India. Sandeep heads our Overseas Operations, Business Development strategy, Marketing Planning and Execution. With a Masters degree in Marketing and organization behavior he holds a pivotal position in the organization.

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Alisha Bellini - Director of IT and Vendor Relations

Alisha went to school at the Advanced Technology Center for Internet Services and graduated at the top of her class. Alisha has been doing web design/computer work for six years. She has taken over as Director of IT and Vendor Relations at Collection Training Institute, LLC since the beginning of 2009. She has worked in the Credit and Collections and Public Safety fields. Alisha has accounting and payroll experience and has been a manager for owners while they were away.
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Mark Beach - Special Advisor

Mark Beach is a 25 year 1st and 3rd Party collection industry veteran with executive-level management experience in the Auto Finance, Student Loan, Commercial, Bankcard, Medical, Telecommunications, and Utility markets. His positions have included Bank Officer, Compliance Officer, Director of Client Services, Director of Operations, Director of IT, Chief Operations Officer, and Agency Partner. In 2004, Mr. Beach liquidated his agency partnership interest and joined Collection Solutions Software as an equity Partner and its Chief Operations Officer. Collection Solutions Software is the maker of IMPACT!, the only collections software application with true built in regulatory compliance features and cross platform capabilities.

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Scott McCollum - Special Advisor

Scott McCollum joined Electronic Payment Providers as President in 2007. He is responsible for the company’s reach and client base through sales direction and relationship management as well as corporate strategy development.

Prior to joining EPP, Mr. McCollum served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Access Corporation where he was responsible for developing and implementing overall sales and marketing strategy. While at Access, McCollum also sat on the board of directors. Mr. McCollum has served on the ACA vendor advisory committee and has also been involved in developing strategic integration partnerships with most major collection related companies for the past 10 years.

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George Terzi - Special Advisor

George Terzi is the President and CEO of GT Services, Inc. Founded in 2001, GT Services, Inc. specializes in the acquisitions, sales and third party outsourcing of consumer debt.

Mr. Terzi, a graduate of The California State University at Fullerton, has been in the Debt Industry for nearly 15 years where he has compiled sales over $120 million representing approximately $6.3 billion in face value. In addition to his sales, Mr. Terzi has been involved in the purchase of billions of dollars in face value of debt, directly and indirectly through the originating institutions. Prior to GT Services, Inc., Mr. Terzi was the Vice President of Sales & Acquisitions for Vision Management Services.

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Rick Zois - Special Advisor

Rick Zois has a combined 15 years of experience in receivables management and information solutions. He specialized in work flow design, account treatment strategies, and data utilization.

Rick, a graduate of High Point University, began his career as a collector for Palm Beach Credit Adjusters in 1993. Over the last 10 years, he has held sales and management positions with both ChoicePoint and LexisNexis. During this time, he has worked with debt buyers, first party credit grantors, third party collection agencies, and insurance companies to develop and implement effective receivables management programs.

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Steve Ruderman - Special Advisor

Steve Ruderman has been in the financial services arena for over 20 years.Steve runs his own company, Executive Level Sales Outsourcing Services, ELSOS. Steve also runs Credit and Collection News (CCN) a daily electronic newsletter specifically designed for the credit and collections vertical marketplace with a subscriber database of over 50,000. Prior to running Elsos and CCN, Steve ran national sales for Amerix and The Fanuel Group. Prior to that Steve ran regional sales at Equifax for over 10 years. He has been on the board of CCCS of San Diego and was the National Sales Advisor for the NFCC.


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Sanjeev Menon - Special Advisor

Sanjeev was a Vice President of Syndications of United Financial Of Illinois. He was responsible for predominately debt and equity private placements and syndications involving energy equipment and renewable energy technologies (landfill gas, solar and wind). Closed and funded 10 transactions involving $130M in debt financing.

Sanjeev Menon was previously a Director of TL1 Partners, Inc. His responsibilities include marketing and providing underwriting support on transactions in the following areas: (i) Venture Finance, (ii) Structured Finance, (iii) Energy Financings and (iv) Equity Financings.

Prior to joining TL1, he was a Co-founder of two technology start-up companies. In this position, he was responsible for developing the business plan, financing, forming strategic business alliances, hiring employees and closing big-ticket corporate sales. He negotiated major business alliances expanding the company's products and services capabilities to include 3 products and over 1000 consultants.

Sanjeev was also an Assistant Vice President with GE Capital's Structured Finance Group for a period of seven years. He was offered a Director level position within the Equity Capital Group at GE Capital while working on assignment in London. He has extensive corporate, private placement, private equity and structured finance debt and equity background in the aircraft, energy and telecommunications industries.
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