New Strategic Partnership Brings ARM Industry Veterans Kristin Dougherty, Chris Della Ratta & Frank Woodhouse Together Again

DENVER — Announcing an exciting strategic partnership from industry veterans Kristin Dougherty of Dougherty Consulting Group, Chris Della Ratta and Frank Woodhouse of Alpha Recovery Corp. The three professionals have 50 years of combined debt buying & collection industry experience.

The recovery platform at Alpha Recovery is distinctive and unsurpassed, built from unique, individual knowledge from the collection floor through senior management at the largest, most successful debt buyer in the country. All had extensive success in credit card collection and purchasing as well as with consumer loans, auto deficiencies, apartment leases, telecom, cable, and payday loans. Alpha Recovery and Dougherty Consulting Group bring this rare industry knowledge and competitive edge to you!

Today more than ever, businesses will benefit from our unique competitive edge, excellent customer service and commitment to high performance from proven leaders.

“After years working with Chris and Frank at Collect America, I have personally experienced their integrity, commitment to clients and believe in the collection platform they are establishing with Alpha Recovery Corp. I know they will bring the extra “edge” clients need for successful collections in today’s market. I think this is an exciting time to become involved with them as a client,” Says Kristin Dougherty who has teamed with Alpha Recovery to get their “edge” out to the debt marketplace and to you.

“Alpha Recovery Corp is very excited to be working with Kristin, she is a tremendous leader within the debt buying and collections industry. We are confident in Kristin and Dougherty Consulting Group as a partner and look forward to creating long term successful relationships that focus on client satisfaction and results,” says Chris Della Ratta.

The principals of Alpha have the track record to consistently outperform the competition collecting purchased portfolios or contingency fee placed debt. The cornerstone of Alpha’s success comes from creating unbeaten collection programs to maximize efficiencies and our personal knowledge of the industry. Alpha’s proven programs, policies and procedures maximize the collectability of the portfolios through good analytics and a real awareness how to make a collection floor perform. Alpha’s programs will create dominance in the marketplace through high liquidation rates over short periods of time compared to traditional industry standards, regardless of the debt type. Traveling different roads to their current positions compliments each others’ abilities; we have created a dynamic, high performing agency offering best in class liquidations and customer service for debt buyers, national banks, and other debt types that are available in the marketplace.

About Kristin Dougherty, Dougherty Consulting Group, Inc.
Kristin has been a driving force in the distressed asset buying industry for several years. Collections & Credit Risk Magazine Featured her as “One of the Top 5 Women to Know in Collections” in 2009. 2010 will mark Kristin’s nineteenth anniversary in the industry. Selling over $10 Billion in purchased inventory in her 9-year tenure at Collect America alone, she has executed deals with hundreds of buyers and sellers and performed speaking engagements at industry events & conferences. Before forming Dougherty Consulting Group (www.doughertyconsultinggroup.com) this year, Kristin was the Senior Vice President of Sales for Collect America, now SquareTwo Financial, as well as their Government Affairs Liaison in Denver Colorado and held several executive positions throughout nine years at Unifund Group in Cincinnati, Ohio. She uses her extensive skills and network to assist new and established companies solve problems, create strategies and develop connections that add value to any business. Her successes with automation and process improvement will help businesses produce new levels of efficiency and success.

About Christopher Della Ratta and Frank Woodhouse, Alpha Recovery Corp.
Christopher “Dell” Della Ratta lead the Operations Department at SquareTwo Financial, formerly Collect America, responsible for over $4 billion in corporate assets and the production of dozens of franchises, law offices and collection agencies. He was instrumental in the expansion of their national collection network by adding new franchises and seeing them through start-up, survival, turnaround and growth modes. Christopher’s 13 years of management experience and industry knowledge provides the tools necessary for understanding client needs, excellent customer service and building new relationships. Frank Woodhouse was most recently the Vice President of Operational Services for SquareTwo Financial, formerly Collect America. Frank was responsible for maintaining and servicing existing client relationships with national banks and debt buyers and the company’s $4 billion dollars of purchased assets. Frank’s management experience began in 1992 overseeing the collection floor that was the beginning of Collect America, Ltd. and SquareTwo Financial as they exist today. Frank was one of three Directors in Operations managing up to 8 franchise offices at a time; training the locations on new plans, troubleshooting day to day issues, and creating new programs, driving performance and communicating goals that helped make the franchise concept successful.