The Man and His Plan Just call him King Midas.
Taken from Chis Hoggs Linkedin Profile.....
Chris Hogg has been the entrepreneurial prime mover behind a number of businesses in the consumer financial services industry.
Chris is an Australian citizen and resides in Bryn Mawr, PA, USA. His experience is based in the corporate insurance, consumer debt recovery, retail financial services, payments transaction services and consumer asset based leasing industries.
Starting work in 1975 in Sydney Australia, he had 12 years experience working in International Insurance markets with Stewart Wrightson PLC, prior to its acquisition by Willis PLC.
He left the Stewart Wrightson in 1987 to become General Manager – Financial Services of the publically listed Charthill Group managing a private client investment advisory business, money market book and retail tax based investments business.
In 1990 he acquired and then grew one of Australia’s largest finance brokerage houses, Equico, culminating in its listing on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2000.
In the Consumer debt recovery and credit card debt purchase industry he acquired Malwyn Limited in 2001 and was the major shareholder and CEO of what was then Australia’s largest privately owned debt collection agency specializing in credit card debt recovery. He merged this company in 2003 with a DB private equity investment for significant returns to his investment partners.
In July 2004, he moved to the USA and formed his own private investment company, Glocap Management Inc.
In 2006 Chris joined the first Board of UK based Marlin Financial Group, a start up in the Consumer debt collection and receivables management business based in London and oversaw the growth of this business from an initial non performing loan portfolio of £5m to £665m.
From 2008 to 2010 through Glocap Management Inc. he led an investment group to acquire control of a Canadian publicly listed debit card business Mint Technology Corp and is currently it’s Executive Chairman. www.themintcorp.com.