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Domenic Di Loreto, SVP Business Development
ABC-Amega’s highly-trained, certified debt collection experts focus on maintaining your customer relationships. Providing businesses with third-party collections since 1929, ABC also supports A/R teams with competitive first-party outsourcing services.
ABC-Amega joined Cadex Solutions Corporation in 2023. Cadex helps companies reduce the complexity between order placement and payment processing through proprietary technology and comprehensive order-to-cash management solutions.
ABC-Amega is Certified by both the CCA of A and CLLA/IACC.
Marc Gerstel, President
For more than 50 years, AGA has helped businesses recover the maximum amount of money in the minimum amount of time. We do it while protecting their brand and customer relationships, keeping them in the loop every step of the way through our advanced reporting platform.
AGA is part of Cadex Solutions Corporation. Cadex helps companies reduce the complexity between order placement and payment processing through proprietary technology and comprehensive order-to-cash management solutions.
Seth Waschitz, Senior Director
A&M is a financial advisory firm with a dedicated Unsecured Creditors’ Committee practice. We evaluate strategic options to determine the optimal path forward to maximize recoveries for unsecured creditors. Our integrated platform draws upon A&M professionals’ in-depth knowledge and experience in restructuring, corporate finance, litigation support, tax, and relevant industry experience, and positions us to address all critical issues.
American Express
R. J. Ancona, Vice President & General Manager, B2B Product, Partner & Client Management
American Express is a globally integrated payments company, providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.
Learn more about our products, services, and corporate responsibility information at americanexpress.com.
Dominic Biegel, Director, Sales
Bectran is a SaaS Credit Management platform that streamlines and automates the entire Order-to-Cash Process. From Credit Application, Customer Onboarding, Construction Jobs, Order Management, Collections, Invoicing, Claims and Cash Application, the Fortune 100 to SMEs utilize Bectran daily as a solution to the manual credit process. Through the automated system, Bectran significantly helps lower the costs of credit & collections.
Chad Bruffey, Senior Director, Corporate
Finance leaders turn to Billtrust to control costs, accelerate cash flow and improve customer satisfaction. As a B2B order-to-cash software and digital payments market leader, we help the world’s leading brands get paid faster while transitioning from expensive paper invoicing and check acceptance to efficient electronic billing and payments.
Cindy Jacobson, Sr. Solutions Consultant
BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls financial close and accounting processes. Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. We help them move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility.
BlackLine's invoice-to-cash solution releases cash from customers using next-generation intelligent automation. Optimize working capital by driving world-class invoice-to-cash processes and leveraging decision intelligence to drive better business outcomes.
Monique Brown, Sr. Client Consultant
Carixa is a credit-to-cash automation platform that solves your toughest receivables challenges, including cash application, deductions, trade promotion, credit, and collections. With decades of practitioners-experience, we leverage technology to deliver improved cash flow, process efficiencies, and deduction recovery. Our unique services and software approach has driven significant returns on investment for some of the leading brands in the world.
Annette M. Waggoner, Executive Director
Commercial Collection Agencies of America, the premier association for commercial collection agencies, elevates the standards of the commercial collection industry by providing a superior certification program.
Member agencies adhere to a strict code of ethics, meet rigorous requirements set by an independent standards board and provide the highest level of professional service while collecting billions of dollars for creditors worldwide.
Chad Haynie, EVP Global Revenue
Commercial Collection Corp. of New York has been in business for over 60 years and offers innovative, customizable solutions designed to meet the diverse needs and requirements of companies in all industries across the country and around the globe. CCC of NY partners with its clients to reduce DSO, improve cash-flow and maximize efficiency with innovative solutions, such as First and Third Party Collection Programs; Notice to Owner (NTO), Lien and UCC Filing Services; Customized Business Process Outsourcing (BPO); Pre-Collect Programs for Small Balance Accounts; Credit Reporting, Scoring and Monitoring; Legal and Pre-Legal Services.
Commercial Collection Corp. of New York is a certified agency of the Commercial Law League of America (CLLA) which is endorsed by the International Association of Commercial Collectors (IACC). Each collection professional employed at Commercial Collection Corp. of NY is IACC certified.
Jeff Braunstein, Director Partners & Data Acquisition
Creditsafe, the global expert in credit monitoring and risk management, is the world’s most used provider of business reports. Today, over 115,000 customers globally depend on Creditsafe to make critical business decisions. Using real-time data from over 9,000 sources across over 200 countries and territories, Creditsafe’s mission is to help businesses mitigate financial, legal and compliance risks, while also empowering them to make more informed decisions. To learn more, visit our website.
Alison Teixeira, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Experian’s Business Information Services provides industry-leading predictive insights to organizations for all stages of their customer lifecycle, helping them mitigate risk and improve profitability. Our business databases provide comprehensive, third-party verified information on US and International companies, with an unparalleled depth of data on small and mid-sized businesses.
Keith Cowart, Receivables Market Owner
FIS' GETPAID solution empowers credit and collections to drive significant financial and operational results. Featuring full process automation, workflow, artificial intelligence, credit, cash application, deduction and dispute management, EIPP, collections, and detailed analysis and reporting. FIS is a global leader in financial services technology, providing software, services and outsourcing technology that empowers the financial world. FIS serves more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries.
Eric Ortner, VP of Sales
Handle.com powers the largest credit teams in construction. Fortune 500 material suppliers and equipment dealers trust Handle software on a daily basis to provide their credit and collections departments with an end-to-end solution that saves their staff on average 10-12 hours per week, per employee. Handle is the new modern technology approach to better manage credit compliance, lien management, waivers and online payments for construction.
Kathy Rotondo, Sr. Vice President & COO
IAB Solutions LLC is a nationwide service provider focused on the resolution, recovery and management of deductions and accounts receivable disputes. Working independently and adapting our approach to fit each unique situation allows us to recover the maximum possible dollars, increase our clients' cash flow and productivity, and maintain and promote the goodwill of their customers.
Robert Unger, Associate Managing Director, ACH Network Development
Nacha is a nonprofit organization that convenes hundreds of diverse organizations to enhance and enable electronic payments and financial data exchange. Through development of rules, standards, governance, education, advocacy, and in support of innovation, Nacha’s efforts benefit the providers and users of those systems. Nacha also offers payment consulting services and payment products.
Adrian Segedy, Director of Sales
Since 1970, NCS has been the leader in providing credit professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada with proactive solutions to secure receivables, minimize credit risk and improve profitability. Specializing in commercial collections, the preparation and filing of mechanic's liens and a full-service UCC filing program, NCS provides superior service and customized solutions to meet your needs.
Sarah-Jayne Martin, Global Director of AR Practice
Quadient is a leader in helping businesses create meaningful customer connections through digital and physical channels. Quadient’s offering, Quadient Accounts Receivable (AR) by YayPay, is a unified credit-to-cash platform.
Quadient AR automates the entire process, from credit to collections to cash application. The platform’s intuitive user interface and accurate, real-time reporting enables you to instantly gauge the current and future financial health of your business. Set collections on autopilot with automated and customizable workflows that help your business achieve 34% faster collections on average. Predictive analytics power 94% forecasting accuracy and comprehensive credit management capabilities allow you to instantly gauge customer creditworthiness.
When it’s time to be paid, your business can effortlessly receive payments via a secure, online payment portal that buyers love to use, with international payment options and instant account visibility.
Taylor Ricketts, Vice President
RetailStat, formerly F&D, Creditntell and ARMS is the leading retail focused credit consultative service. For over thirty years, RetailStat has serviced clients through its trusted brands to drive better decision making through reliable data, insights, and analytics. RetailStat unites those brands as the industry-leading retail intelligence provider dedicated to unwavering quality and client services. Our clients benefit from our extensive industry experience, as well as industry-leading “deep dive” financial analysis, foot traffic analyses, credit consultation and trade payment evaluation of public and private companies, delivering key intelligence to busy credit executives making highly informed decisions.
Michael Koehler, Principal Solution Architect
Serrala is a leading global innovator in financial software solutions that enables organizations to optimize their financial processes. With nearly 40 years of experience in the industry, Serrala's solutions automate, reduce costs, and improve visibility into cash flow. The company serves over 2,500 clients in over 70 countries around the world. For more information, visit: www.serrala.com
Timothy Ray, VP Sales North America
Sidetrade is the leader in unlocking customer value in order-to-cash by combining next-generation artificial intelligence with B2B buyer behavior data. Using AI-powered technology coupled with over 20 years of Order-to-Cash experience, Sidetrade is dedicated to increasing working capital, accelerating cash flow, benchmarking customer payment trends and transforming the finance function into a data-driven, strategic advantage. With order-to-cash solutions spanning customer ordering, credit risk monitoring, e-Invoicing, dispute management, collections, payments, cash application, and analytics and forecasting, Sidetrade intelligently automates actions to enhance productivity, performance, and improve working capital.