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Irvine, California—August
9 ,
2007—Apollo Enterprise Solutions LLC, the leading
provider of web-based payment and collection technology, reported
today that the company has met or exceeded a number of significant
milestones during the first half of 2007. According to Michael
Walker, Apollo’s
Chief Operating Officer, “We continue to receive strong interest
in our Intelligent Debt Solution product suite and have added several
marquee clients from the card issuing, debt-buying and recovery
sides of the business. The confidence demonstrated by our
clients in selecting Apollo as their technology provider of choice
for web-based payments and collections, and the fact that we are
now collecting over $1 billion online annually, further demonstrates
our position as the market leader.”
Some of the company’s
key achievements in 2007 have included:
• Increased Online Collections: Online collections
for Apollo clients are now exceeding $3 million a day, a 300% increase
over 2006.
• Expanded Customer Base: Apollo has
added several new clients recently, including one of the top three
retail credit card issuers, a number of large publicly traded debt
buyers, and collections agencies.
• New Strategic Partnerships: Apollo
has expanded its product and service offerings through new strategic
partnerships with IBM, Austin Logistics and Card Acquisition LLC. Apollo
has entered into a global partnership with IBM to deliver applications,
consulting services, equipment, and hosting services through IBM’s
Global Business Services Group. Austin Logistics is the leading
provider of on-demand, customer-focused predictive analytics and
business intelligence software solutions for account management
and marketing, risk and collections. Card Acquisition, LLC, through
its Affirm MasterCard, is a leader in providing alternative debt
recovery solutions to the Accounts Receivable Management industry.
• Formation of Healthcare Subsidiary: Capitalizing
on the company’s success in financial services, the company
launched Apollo Enterprise Healthcare Solutions, LLC to provide
its proven, patent-pending online collection applications to healthcare
providers. By customizing the company’s web-based payments
and collections system to a healthcare provider’s specific
requirements, Apollo is able to effectively streamline and simplify
self-service payments, collections, and recovery in the healthcare
revenue management cycle.
• Key Employee Additions: Apollo has recruited
some of the industry’s most talented and respected professionals
to accelerate its worldwide expansion into additional vertical
markets as the leader in web-based payments and collections technology.
The newest members the Apollo team include former Citigroup Senior
Executive John Furjanic, now Apollo’s Executive Vice President
of Analytics & Decision Strategy; former GE Healthcare Senior
Executive John Gryga, as President of Apollo Enterprise Healthcare
Solutions; Jim Mahoney as Apollo’s Senior Vice President
of Business Development, formerly the Debt Resolve SVP of Sales
and Marketing; and former Golden Retriever Systems Executive Vice
President Ceasar Verdelli, now Apollo’s Chief Technology
Officer.
“This
year marks continued growth in our business,” notes
Apollo’s Chief Executive Officer, Christopher Imrey. “The
market continues to validate the benefits of using real-time decisioning
and analytics as part of the online and mobile collections process
and we continue to experience strong demand from credit providers,
debt-buyers and collection agencies. We are also seeing increased
focus from the healthcare, auto finance, mortgage and public sector
markets and we anticipate our momentum will grow throughout the
second half of 2007 as we continue to expand the solid foundation
for Apollo’s future.”
About Apollo Enterprise Solutions
Apollo Enterprise
Solutions, LLC, headquartered in Irvine, California, provides enterprise-class
web-hosted solutions for a variety of industries involved in receivables
management and debt collections. At the heart of Apollo’s Intelligent Debt Solutions™ system
is the patent-pending IDS Decision Engine™ which provides
Decisioning Intelligence™, a revolutionary process that delivers
more debtors for recovery and settlement and more dollars per settlement
by creating individual, customized offers that reflect a debtor’s
most realistic ability to pay.
Contact:
Jeff Dickey
Executive Vice President - Sales & Marketing
Apollo Enterprise
Solutions, LLC
(949) 399-1000 x220
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