By Kevin McCauley
Sheryl Wright, a 25-year veteran of telecom Sprint Nextel, has joined Encore Capital Group as senior VP-external affairs.
She’s in charge of corporate communications, community outreach and federal/state regulatory affairs for the San Diego-based debt collection agency.
Wright departed Sprint Nextel as VP-government affairs. Most recently, she was senior VP-external affairs at Bridgepoint Education, the for-profit education company that Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions slammed as a “scam.”
NASDAQ-listed ECG reported a record second-quarter as net income rose 12.1 percent to $16.6M on a 27 percent surge in revenues to $141M.
The quarter included a $3.8M accounting, consulting and legal expense related to the acquisition of Propel Financial Services, a Texas-based tax lien transfer company.
ECG’s shares are trading at $28.15. They ranged from $19.40 to $30.47 during the past year.
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