CUNA Collections & Bankruptcy School: Introduction
Instructors

Instructors

  Kelly Becker

Kelly is a founder and the president of CU Recovery, Inc. and The Loan Service Center Inc. in Wyoming, Minnesota. CU Recovery, Inc. specializes in charge-off collection and repossession work. Currently, the company serves more than 1,000 credit unions in the U.S. Since the company's inception it has collected more than $35 million for credit union clients and repossessed more than 4,000 pieces of collateral. Kelly's experience provides us with a unique perspective into the minds and habits of delinquent members. He brings a real world approach to the task of managing account delinquency and we are confident that you will find his insights enlightening and informative.

  Harry Strausser, III

Harry A. Strausser III is president of the Remit Corporation and Interact Training and Development where he oversees the operation of a full-service collection agency and coordinates the training programs of its educational subsidiary. Harry is active in both the Pennsylvania Collectors Association and ACA International in which he is a certified instructor. He has instructed more than 150 seminars for the ACA. At the 1993 International Conference in San Antonio, he was named "instructor of the year" for that organization and is a member of the International Fellowship of Certified Collection Executives. In January 1998 he was the recipient of the Kurt Swersky Innovative Leadership Award at the Leadership Forum of the American Collectors Association held at Snowmass, CO. He was a founding board member of the Northeast Pennsylvania Chapter of the International Credit Association. He currently serves on the ACA International Executive Committee as Treasurer.

  Robert Rutkowski

Robert is a partner of Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A. and manages the firm's credit union department and the corporate and financial services practice group. Robert served on the board of directors for the Lake County Educational Federal Credit Union for four years. He was recognized as an Ohio Rising Star in 2006 by "Law and Politics" and "Cincinnati" magazines. He has been published in Credit Union Magazine, Credit Union Management Magazine, and The Cleveland Bar Journal. Robert is the producer and co-host of the "current issues in credit unions" podcast and the author of "that credit union blog."

  Geoff Peters

Geoff works in the bankruptcy department in the Cincinnati office of Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and he is licensed in Ohio and New York and admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court (Northern District of OH, Southern District of OH, Northern District of NY, Southern District of NY, Eastern District of NY, Western District of NY, Central District of IL). Geoff is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and Beta Gamma Sigma. In 2006, he was recognized as an Ohio Rising Star by Cincinnati Magazine.

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