THE LANDAU GROUP PROMOTES MARK SAMMARTANO AND HARRY ALBERT, NAMES NEW SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SALES AND MARKETING
March 29, 2006 (PRLEAP.COM) Health News
Mark Sammartano, who in 1998 founded TLG’s business process outsourcing business, LRS Healthcare Group, assumed the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of TLG, a new position created to oversee and coordinate the Company’s business process outsourcing, collections and information technology services.Harry Albert, an officer of TLG since 2000 assumed the role of Vice President of Collection Operations, with responsibility for TLG’s collection operations business, Accounts Recovery Bureau, Inc.
“Mark and Harry have been instrumental in leading TLG in its recent growth and to its current levels of profitability,” said Mr. Colburn, TLG’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “I look forward to working closely with them in their new positions as we implement our targeted growth strategy.”
Further enhancing the management team, TLG today also announced that it has named veteran healthcare sales and marketing executive, Michael Holland, as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing.
Mr. Holland, who recently joined TLG, will be responsible for all sales and marketing activities, including building the Company’s sales force and initiating a number of marketing initiatives to promote the Company’s capabilities and reputation for service excellence established over the last 30 years. His mandate will also include coordinating with senior management the alignment of TLG activities and services with the Company's current and emerging strategic direction.
“We are actively exploring many new business opportunities and are anxious to increase market awareness of our substantial experience, depth of management talent, state-of the-art technology, and high degree of customer satisfaction," said Mr. Colburn. "Mr. Holland brings more than 30 years of industry knowledge and experience to the Company. This, along with his business process outsourcing and revenue cycle management expertise, fits well with TLG's current and emerging requirements as we continue to seek to identify opportunities to enhance our Company’s reputation and market share."
Most recently, Mr. Holland was Chief Revenue Officer for Universata, a provider of web-based patient information services. Before joining Universata in 2004, Mr. Holland spent more than 14 years in officer-level sales and marketing positions with Siemens HIS and Lawson Software, both world leaders, providing IT and software solutions to the healthcare industry.
Mr. Holland spent the earlier part of his career in hospital finance functions, including management of the business office, providing him with a full range of experience in the healthcare revenue cycle function.
About TLG
TLG, is a leading provider of revenue cycle management services that focus primarily on healthcare providers and municipalities, consisting of Accounts Recovery Bureau, Inc. (“ARB”), a well-known national collection agency and Associated Credit Systems, Inc. (“ACS”), a well-known national business process outsourcing and information technology services company d/b/a LRS Healthcare Group and Landau Data Processing, respectively. In January 2006, a company formed by management and private equity investors acquired TLG. CCP Equity Partners, based in Hartford, CT and SightLine Partners, based in Minneapolis, MN, led the financing, which also included New York City-based Quilvest Private Equity.
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