Atlanta, Ga., USA - January 21, 2015, Atlanta, Ga., USA - Aaron's, Inc., a lease-to-own retailer, announced that Ryan Woodley, COO and CFO of subsidiary Progressive Leasing, has been named chief executive officer of Progressive Leasing.
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Mr. Woodley joined Progressive as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer in June of 2013. Previously, Mr. Woodley was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at DigiCert, a digital security certificate provider which was sold to TA Associates in November 2012. Before DigiCert, he was a principal at Polaris Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston.
Prior to Polaris, Mr. Woodley was a strategy consultant at the Monitor Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked on a range of strategic and operating engagements for Fortune 500 clients across several industries. He has also spent time at Google as a manager in the online sales operations group and at the payment gateway Authorize.Net.
Mr. Woodley has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from BYU.
In addition, Blake Wakefield, currently Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, was promoted to Progressive's President and Chief Revenue Officer.
Mr. Wakefield joined Progressive in 2013 with 18 years of sales and marketing experience in the technology sector. He was previously head of Retail Sales, Marketing and Operations for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Region at Seagate Technologies where he developed a sustainable, profitable business with the region's most strategic customers. Mr. Wakefield also was Sr. Director of Sales and Marketing for Seagate running North and South America for the retail business.
Before joining Seagate in 2008, he was Director of Sales for New Age Electronics. Prior to that, he also held marketing, sales, and sales management responsibilities for Hewlett-Packard.
Mr. Wakefield earned an MBA from Portland State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University.
Todd Jeffcoat, Senior Vice President of Finance, was named Progressive's Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Jeffcoat joined Progressive in May of 2012 with 13 years of accounting experience in the consumer finance sector. Prior to joining Progressive, Mr. Jeffcoat served as Controller, then Chief Accounting Officer for TMX Finance.
Prior to joining TMX Finance, he served as staff accountant, then Corporate Accounting Supervisor for Advance America. He holds a B.S. in Accounting degree from the University of South Carolina and is a licensed C.P.A. in the state of South Carolina.
Ryan Ray, Vice President of Operations, was named Progressive's Chief Operations Officer.
Mr. Ray joined Progressive in 2013 as Vice President of Operations after 18 years with Discover Financial Services. During his career with Discover, he was the Head of Operations for Discover Student Loans, managing a staff of more than 500 full time employees.
Mr. Ray led Underwriting, Servicing, Collections, and Back-Office Operations for an $8 billion student loan portfolio. He was responsible for hiring, training, procedures, workforce management, call flow strategies, call handling strategies, dialer strategies and compliance. ■
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