John Priest
Chief Executive Officer
jpriest@hilcoreceivables.com
Prior to joining Hilco Receivables, John had been with the Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company, a unit of Cerberus Capital Management. His financial industry experience encompasses domestic as well as international financial services. Before joining Cerberus, John served in a variety of consumer finance companies primarily in the roles of Chief Credit Officer and Head of Marketing Analytics. He has substantial experience in the sub prime and middle market segments, having worked in various roles for Providian Financial. In addition, he started-up Providian Bank in Argentina and also served as the Chief Credit Officer and Head of Marketing and Database Analytics for African Bank in South Africa, which provides a wide variety of consumer loans to the middle market and micro-finance segments.
Bill oversaw all aspects of the consumer and commercial divisions of Apex Financial. Through his vision and leadership, he developed a proprietary in-house scoring model, designed innovative repayment solution programs, incorporated state of the art technology, and built strategic alliances with industry leaders. Apex Financial was recently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Collections by insideARM.com and Best Companies Group.
Bill brings more than 17 years of experience in credit collections and debt purchasing. Prior to joining Apex Financial in 2004 he served in executive roles at The CBE Group and Van Ru Credit Corporation. Through his innovation and experience, he triggered the growth and expansion of his past employers by managing 1,000 employees and became an industry pioneer by introducing diversified portfolios, collection workflows and activity, rigorous training and compliance programs and collection software system conversions.
Ryan Kasten
Chief Financial Officer
Ryan joined Hilco in January 2002 as the Director of Finance and was promoted to the VP of Finance during 2003 as a result of the success and growth of the Company. Before joining Hilco, he was an Accounting Manager for Eastman Chemical (formerly McWhorter Technologies) primarily responsible for internal and external (SEC) reporting as well as all treasury functions. Prior to Eastman, he worked for two Chicagoland retailers handling various accounting, financial management and corporate finance duties.
During his career, Ryan has also gained extensive knowledge of cash management, internal control and corporate compliance enforcement and human resource management across manufacturing, retail and financial service sectors. Ryan has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a MBA in Finance from DePaul University.
Mike Walsh
General Counsel
mwalsh@hilcoreceivable.com
Throughout his career, Steve has gained extensive IT experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Hilco Receivables, Steve was with MortgageServ, a software development subsidiary of FiServ, Inc. where he was responsible for managing conversion projects for loan origination software at client sites across the US. Prior to that, he was with Abacus Financial Management Services as Senior Vice President, in charge of the IT department supporting risk management agencies, over a wide range of accounts receivables sectors.