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Jeffrey Pretsfelder is a senior analyst with Thomson Reuters Checkpoint within the Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting business.

Ted Needleman has been covering the world of technology for more than 30 years. He writes frequently on software, hardware, and technology-related subjects, and was previously the editor-in-chief of Accounting Technology.

Pat Connolly, CPA, is a tax partner at BlumShapiro, the largest regional business advisory firm based in New England, with offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Barrett Burns is president and CEO of VantageScore Solutions, a company launched by the nation’s three major credit reporting companies (CRCs) - Equifax, Experian and TransUnion - in March 2006 to offer VantageScore, a new generic credit scoring model. VantageScore provides credit grantors with a highly predictive model that uses an innovative, patent-pending scoring methodology to deliver a consistent interpretation of consumer credit files across all three CRCs and the ability to score a broad population.Burns joined VantageScore with more than three decades of professional experience in risk and credit management. He has held a diverse number of national and international leadership positions at several of the country's most prestigious financial services companies.Prior to joining VantageScore, Burns was the executive vice president heading the National Private Banking Group of U.S Trust and a member of both U S Trust’s Executive Committee and the Senior Management Team of parent company, The Charles Schwab Corporation. Burns led a strategic restructuring of 33 once-independently run offices into a single operating unit resulting in record profits for the National Private Banking Group in 2003 and again the following year, despite significant infrastructure, operations, product development and staffing investments.Earlier in his career, he served as executive vice president of global risk management at Ford Motor Credit Company, where he was a member of the $204 billion auto finance organization's Management Committee and senior personnel, treasury and executive oversight committees. He was responsible for all aspects of risk management including credit, treasury and operations risk plus collections-related Six Sigma projects.Burns also served as senior vice president and chief credit officer with Finance One Banking Group, the consumer and commercial finance unit of Bank One that was, at the time, the nation's fifth-largest finance company. In that role he held the highest level of credit authority delegation within the company. Burns started his career at Bank One within its $25 billion auto finance company as senior vice president and chief operating officer. Prior, Burns spent more than a decade with Citibank, lastly as group credit officer for an international consumer banking division that included operations throughout the U.S. and Europe. He had previously held a similar position of responsibility for credit quality and portfolio management for a 14-state region in the western U.S. He has also held a senior credit management position at Houston-based Southwest Bancshares, which later became M Corp.

Deborah L. Everly is Senior Vice President and Chief Acquisitions Officer for Asset Acceptance Capital Corp., a leading purchaser and collector of charged-off consumer debt based in Warren, Michigan.Everly is responsible for the company’s overall debt purchasing strategy, including its medical division Premium Asset Recovery Corp. in Deerfield Beach, Fla.During the past 14 years, Everly has overseen the purchase of $42 billion in debt portfolios from more than 150 debt sellers, including many of the largest consumer lenders in the United States.Everly has worked in the accounts receivable management industry since 1991.She joined the Company in 1995 and was appointed Marketing and Acquisitions Director in 1996, Assistant Vice President—Marketing and Acquisitions in 1997 and Vice President—Marketing and Acquisitions in 1998. She was appointed to her current position in October 2007.Everly was nominated by her industry peers to Collections & Credit Risk magazine’s Top 5 Woman in the Industry for 2008. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and serves as an expert source for industry publications.

Campbell Edlund founded EMI Strategic Marketing in 1989, inspired by a desire to create relationship marketing focused on driving sales channel velocity and productivity. Her career has spanned both consulting and agency leadership of Fortune 100 accounts in financial services and technology sectors, and execution of product launches, customer acquisition and cross-sell programs using digital, direct, call center and social media channels. She has led successful payments marketing initiatives for many financial leaders, including SunTrust, PNC, Bank of America, Wachovia, Citizens, Intuit and Fifth Third. She received her AB from Harvard University and her MBA from The Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Ron Shevlin is the Research Director at Cornerstone Advisors, and has been a management consultant and industry analyst for more than 25 years, working for leading consulting and analyst firms like Aite Group, Forrester Research, and KPMG Nolan Norton.Ron was ranked #2 on Bank Innovation's list of 30 Innovators to Watch: Key Executives Shaping the Industry in 2014. His blog, Snarketing 2.0, was the #1 blog for financial services marketers by The Financial Brand in 2013, and was named to Radius' 25 Best Marketing Blogs of 2014. His latest book, Smarter Bank, was published in January 2015.Ron holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in Economics from Binghamton University.