Get to Know Your FLOCK Team

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Our Leadership Team

The Flock management team is chosen for their leadership abilities. They are industry thought leaders with the expectation to create actionable insights that solve the challenges present in the challenging markets and asset classes in which FLOCK works. These leaders have the ability to understand our industry and market trends and visualize what has to be done. They bring the tenacity, grit and sheer will power to achieve sustainable growth for our clients and investors.


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Michael Flock
Chairman and CEO

Michael Flock has been involved in the credit, collections, debt buying, and outsourcing businesses for more than 20 years, beginning with Dun & Bradstreet and, more recently, as a financial advisor and investment banker.

In 2007, he founded Flock Advisors to provide M&A advisory and capital funding services to these same industries. In 2013, Flock Advisors became FLOCK Specialty Finance. This change enabled the company to provide more funding solutions to current clients. The difference also gave FLOCK the ability to expand its offerings into more market segments that have been underserved by traditional banking...

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Greg Paulo
VP, Business Development

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Brett Murray
VP, Risk Management

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Jeff Shaver
CFO

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Jennifer Lewis Priestley, Ph.D.
CDO

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Jessica Smith
Accounting Manager

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Keisha Slade
Sr. Accountant

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Will Bowers
Sr. Data Scientist

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Thomas Knight
Jr. Data Scientist

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Kimberly West
Executive Assistant to the CEO

FLOCK's Board Of Directors

Flock Finance's Board of Directors is a team of professionals who are passionate, experienced, leaders in the specialty finance business. They serve as benevolent stewards for the organization, investors and clients alike. They serve as FLOCK's mentors while steering our Vision, Mission and Values.


Michael Flock
Chairman

Michael Flock has been involved in the credit, collections, debt buying, and outsourcing businesses for more than 20 years, beginning with Dun & Bradstreet and, more recently, as a financial advisor and investment...

Danny Strickland
Independant Consultant | Innovation Frameworks, LLC

Danny Strickland is the Principal and Founder of Innovation Frameworks, since March 2008. Previously he was Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation and Technology Officer of Coca Cola…

David S. FisherDavid S. Fisher, CPA, CFA®, CFP®
SignatureFD, LLC

David Fisher is a co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of SignatureFD, LLC. He provides investment consulting and comprehensive wealth management to the firm’s high...

Stephen M. DavisStephen M. Davis
Davis Development | Davis Exploration, LLC

Stephen M. Davis serves as the Vice President of Davis Development. Davis Development is a Class A multifamily housing development, construction and management company based in Atlanta…

Stephen M. Davis

Reid E. Simpson
Chief Financial Officer 

Reid Simpson is CFO of GeoTix in Traverse City, MI. He is a seasoned financial executive with a proven track record of creating value for shareholders. His experience includes over 30 years of chief financial officer positions with large and small companies...
 

FLOCK's Advisory Council

In the spirit of "The Wisdom of Teams", FLOCK understands that we cannot be experts in all things. As we explore new investment opportunities, asset classes, technology and processes, FLOCK has developed relationships with experts in areas to provide insight and help solve the challenging problems.


Michael E. Hollingsworth IIMichael E. Hollingsworth II
Partner

Michael Hollingsworth II, partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Atlanta office, is co-head of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group and the Investment Management Group. Mr. Hollingsworth focuses on middle-market corporate transactions, including mergers...

Irwin BernsteinIrwin Bernstein
Founder

Irwin Bernstein is the founder of CMS Services, an online tool created to simplify the gathering, sharing, reviewing and updating of an ARM firm’s Compliance Management System and provide an online compliance verification tool for creditors and debt…

Stephen M. DavisReid E. Simpson
Chief Financial Officer

Reid Simpson is CFO of GeoTix in Traverse City, MI. He is a seasoned financial executive with a proven track record of creating value for shareholders. His experience includes over 30 years of chief financial officer positions with large and small companies...

Carl HarkleroadCarl Harkleroad
Founder

Carl Harkleroad is the founder of Imagined.Cloud, LLC, a software development company based in Jacksonville, Florida that is focused on building Cloud based applications and services for the ARM Industry…

Ron OertellRon Oertell
CFO at Purchasing Power

Ron has comprehensive accomplishments leading financial strategy, capital markets and capital raising, organizational restructuring, corporate operations, exit planning, and managing cross-functional teams to achieve goals...

Eric VonDohlen
Chief Data Scientist at RIBBIT.ai

Eric VonDohlen, PhD, is a data scientist and a veteran of the Accounts Receivable industry. Eric has served as Chief Credit Officer of Midland Credit Management, where he developed groundbreaking...

FLOCK Specialty Finance Partnerships

At FLOCK Specialty Finance, we are more than a transaction. We believe in the power of community and a positive culture that includes a work environment that is both energizing and collaborative well beyond the walls of our offices. We enjoy partnerships with a variety of organizations based on professional expertise, earned trust, and friendship.


Frazier & Deeter CPAS & Advisors

Frazier & Deeter is a member firm of the PKF International Limited family of legally independent firms and does not accept any responsibility or liability for the actions or inactions on the part of any other individual network member or correspondent firm or firms.

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Frazier & Deeter CPAS & Advisors

CMS Services, based in Chicago, IL – is a compliance management firm that works with small and midsize collection agencies, law firms and debt buyers to develop and operate affordable compliance management systems that assist with registration and compliance issues necessary to participate in the accounts receivable management industry.

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Frazier & Deeter CPAS & Advisors

Imagined.Cloud, established in 2016 with over 50 years of combined industry experience, is re-imagining business processes for the ARM Industry. Using modern architectures and languages, Imagined.Cloud provides scalable applications on the leading-edge of the cloud services revolution.

imagined.cloud

Frazier & Deeter CPAS & Advisors

At Montra, our team delivers unparalleled insight into the work we do to support your IT. We know what good managed services look like from decades of experience that have allowed us to fully modernize our approach.

We build security best practices into everything we do from security to employee onboarding/offboarding and beyond. We pride ourselves on resolving any issues before they cause any disruption or downtime. Get the most from your people and technology by building your company into the best version of itself with Montra.

montra.io

Frazier & Deeter CPAS & Advisors

A42 Labs Inc. is a leading provider of artificial intelligence and machine learning software and services that help enterprise customers build, deploy and manage business critical workloads.

Founded in January 2019 by former Pivotal and EMC technology experts, A42 Labs has rapidly scaled to become a trusted partner to clients across a diverse set of industries.

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Frazier & Deeter CPAS & Advisors

MLT Creative, based in Atlanta, GA – is a B2B marketing firm that specializes in developing integrated B2B marketing programs that will increase your ROI.  We quickly become part of your team/family with the same goal of helping your company be successful. Our expertise focuses on strategic planning & positioning, brand development, content marketing, B2B website development, advertising, inbound marketing, direct mail marketing, email campaigns, sales promotions, on-page and off-page SEO, search engine marketing (SEM) and pay-per-click campaigns (PPC) digital campaigns, and design services.

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