Getting to Know

Missy Meggison’s first job as a lawyer was for a collections law firm and, 12 years later, she hasn’t looked back. Now the general counsel and chief compliance officer for First Financial Asset Management, Missy longs for the day when we all just get along and everyone uses the same …

When asked what he would be doing if he weren’t working in the credit and collection industry, David Kelley mentioned being a pastor or being a baseball coach. The intersection of those two professions might be why he’s found his niche in this industry, having worked his way up from …

For the first time, the Getting to Know profile goes Down Under. Even though he’s from the other side of the world, Adam Wood from GCS Credit Community is well-known in the credit and collection space on this side of the globe. Ambitious and passionate about this industry to a …

Like many, Mitch Williamson did not aspire to a career in the credit and collections industry. But like many, the industry is better off because people like him ended up in it anyway. Read on to learn more about Mitch, how comic books offer him an escape, and what he would …

If there is another director of compliance who works at a collection agency who also wanted to be a DJ and is a “rabid amateur urbanist,” then we all need to play the lottery tonight. It’s hard to believe that someone else out there has the same eclectic tastes as …

There are no shortage of great origin stories for individuals in the credit and collection industry, but David Linares may just win the award for the person who came to the ARM industry from the furthest out in left field. Connecting the dots between a career in aircraft maintenance to …

If not for a chance conversation in a bar one Thanksgiving weekend, John Viggiano may well be following the Dave Matthews Band in an RV instead of working in the credit and collection industry. And, despite the freedom of following your favorite rock band around the world, if push came …

Chris D’Angelo, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Associate Director of Supervision, Enforcement, and Fair Lending, is leaving his job to become the new Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice in the state of New York, according to published reports. Long considered an ally of former director Richard Cordray, D’Angelo announced …

A lawyer who has thousands of lines of poetry memorized and who thinks he would want to be a gym teacher if he wasn’t in the ARM industry — if those aren’t signs that Michael O’Meara is interesting to be around, then nothing is. O’Meara has been in the industry …

Jim Warner is the only chief information officer that State Collection Service has ever had. And he’s just as motivated today as he was when he started at the company nearly 12 years ago. Being an IT executive in the ARM industry can be a challenging career path, but Jim …