Finance | Insurance 2023: VIKRAM ‘VIK’ ATAL
Atal was appointed PRA’s president and CEO in March, after serving as a board member since 2015. He previously spent 27 years in leadership positions with Citigroup Inc. and was president and founder of Atal Advisers LLC, a business and strategy consulting firm. PRA Group, a global player in acquiring and collecting nonperforming loans, earned […]
PRA Group promotes exec to chief HR officer
Norfolk-based international debt acquisition company PRA Group Inc. has promoted executive LaTisha Tarrant to chief human resources officer. Tarrant will start her new role Aug. 15. She currently serves as senior vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary for the global financial services company. She has worked for PRA Group since 2016. “Talent recruitment, […]
PRA Group hires communications exec
Norfolk-based PRA Group, a $1.1 billion debt-purchasing company, has hired Giovanna Genard as vice president of external affairs and marketing leader. Genard will develop and oversee PRA Group’s global external communications, public relations and brand strategy. Before joining PRA Group, Genard served as Old Dominion University’s assistant vice president for public relations and strat[...]
Guardians of the treasury
How’s this for an anxiety recipe? Serious supply-chain woes. A worsening labor shortage. Historic inflation. Rising lending rates. Soaring fuel and energy costs. An exceptionally volatile stock market. Growing cybersecurity threats. Global instability. Oh, and the pandemic that started more than two years ago is still with us. Can you imagine a tougher time to […]
‘The world is behind them’
In late March, Stanislas Vilgrain drove in a convoy of eight trucks from France to Ukraine for 26 hours through a snowstorm, keeping an ear to the radio for news of Russian attacks, The convoy’s mission: to deliver 400,000 meals to Ukrainians from Vilgrain’s Sterling-based business, Cuisine Solutions. The French-born chairman of a company that […]