Business First Buffalo Honors Benton for Outstanding Performance
ARCADE, N.Y., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Pioneer Credit Recovery, a
Western-New York-based receivables management company, today announced that
Caryn Benton has been named CFO of the Year by Business First Buffalo.
Benton was one of six CFOs honored by the Western New York business
newspaper for outstanding performance in the Buffalo-Niagara region. Benton
served as Chief Administrative Officer for Pioneer Credit Recovery for
three years and was recently promoted to Senior Director of Treasury
Services for Sallie Mae's Asset Performance Group (APG).
Benton began her career as an accountant with R.A. Mercer & Co. and
joined Pioneer Credit Recovery in 2001 as an accounting manager. As the
company's Chief Administrative Officer from 2004-2007, Benton oversaw more
than 120 employees across each of Pioneer's six facilities located in
Western New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and was responsible for
finance and audit, compliance, facilities management, and project
management. She also had indirect responsibility for payment processing,
accounting, payroll, information technology, and human resources. Benton
continues to play an integral role in her new position as Senior Director
of Treasury Services, leading payment processing functions for Sallie Mae's
Asset Performance Group. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business
Administration from State University of New York at Fredonia and earned her
CPA in 1993.
This year's Business First Buffalo CFO of the Year Awards were chosen
by a panel of judges from Western New York colleges and universities.
Winners were selected from several categories including, public company,
large private company, small-to-medium private company, non-profit general,
non-profit healthcare and community service.
Pioneer is the largest private-sector employer in Wyoming County and
has received numerous awards, including the Business First Best Places to
Work in Western New York Award, the Better Business Bureau Torch Award for
Marketplace Ethics and the 2005 Wyoming County Business of the Year by the
Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, Wyoming (GLOW) Workforce Investment Board.
Sallie Mae, the nation's leading saving- and paying-for-college
company, acquired Pioneer in January 2002. Pioneer is a subsidiary of
Sallie Mae's Asset Performance Group-one of the nation's leading providers
of debt management services offering default prevention and debt recovery
on state and federal levels.
Pioneer Credit Recovery: Founded in 1980, Pioneer Credit Recovery, Inc.
is a national leader in the collection industry, providing collection
services on defaulted debt. Headquartered in Western New York and employing
nearly 1,400 people, Pioneer partners with multiple state and federal
clients, including the U.S. Department of Education, and is the recipient
of many prestigious awards, including the Better Business Bureau Torch
Award for Marketplace Ethics. In continuously surpassing the competition,
Pioneer provides clients with quality results, experience, leadership and
technology, including state- of-the art infrastructure, telecommunications
and collections systems. Pioneer Credit Recovery is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Sallie Mae, the nation's leading provider of education
funding. SLM Corporation and its subsidiaries are not sponsored by or
agencies of the United States.
SOURCE Pioneer Credit Recovery
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CONTACT:
Rick Castellano for Pioneer Credit Recovery,
+1-703-984-5535, richard.castellano@salliemae.com
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