LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwire) -- 01/21/09 -- Selling Source, LLC, a
Nevada-based technology and data company that provides comprehensive
technology, data and consumer leads to financial service providers,
announced today that it is launching a new consumer financial products
group following its acquisition of the marketing unit of CompuCredit Corp.
(NASDAQ: CCRT).
Selling Source Chief Executive Officer Derek LaFavor said the new entity --
Selling Source "Financial Products Group" -- becomes the company's provider
of its industry-leading technology solutions for credit card companies and
other financial product providers. In addition to industry-wide credit card
lead generation, the group will also handle credit card lead generation in
the United Kingdom.
Selling Source Financial Products
Group will be located in Atlanta -- home of CompuCredit, the specialty
finance company that markets and services branded credit cards and provides
related financial services. As part of this transaction, CompuCredit
entered into a long-term agreement with the Financial Products Group to
perform certain marketing services. John V. Hashman heads the newly
acquired team as executive vice president of the group.
"CompuCredit is a great company, and this acquisition represents a
tremendous opportunity for Selling Source to further diversify our
financial services portfolio," LaFavor said. "John is a recognized expert
in Internet marketing and building online account origination strategies as
well as e-service capabilities. He and his group are welcome additions to
our company."
Hashman was a member of the CompuCredit management team where he was
responsible for marketing several of the company's financial products.
Jon Colston also joins FPG as
director of operations. Colston served as the director of risk management
at CompuCredit, where he focused on leveraging technology to optimize
business processes and improve the overall efficiency of the organization.
Working within the financial services and technology industries, he has
provided strategic planning and execution, program management and product
designs that have assisted company growth from startups to multi-million
dollar industry leaders.
Addition of the Financial Services Group rounds out Selling Source's three
specialty finance technology solution divisions that include its Consumer Acquisition Group,
providing consumer marketing and lead generation, as well as its Lender Solutions Group, offering
among other services end-to-end loan processing management with electronic
document storage and retrieval.
About Selling Source, LLC
Selling Source, LLC, named number 68 on the 2008 Inc. 500 list, up from
number 109 in 2007, offers specialty finance lenders an end-to-end solution
to acquire, fund, underwrite and retain customers while increasing their
overall lifetime value. Selling Source alone provides online lenders a
single-source platform throughout the micro-loan life-cycle with turn-key
consumer acquisition-and-communication services as well as lender, data,
payment-processing and infrastructure solutions, including co-location and
disaster-recovery hot sites. London Bay Capital, a private equity firm
based in San Francisco, acquired a controlling interest in Selling Source
in December 2007. For more information, please visit
http://www.sellingsource.com/.
Contact:
Ron Kalb
Selling Source, LLC
Phone: 702-851-9528
Mobile: 702-498-8916
Email Contact
325 E. Warm Springs Road, Suite 200
Las Vegas, NV 89119
www.sellingsource.com