Leadership Team
Shaping our company to improve consumers' lives today and tomorrow
President: Shawn Gretz
Current Role - Since being promoted to President of Americollect in 2018, Shawn Gretz has resided over $1.6 billion in revenue recovery and providers have entrusted Americollect with over $10 billion in placements of accounts for recovery during that same period. Shawn leads the Senior Leadership Team in direction and strategy for the organization. Directly reporting to Shawn are the functions of Sales & Marketing, Human Resources, and Finance.
Historic Role – For previous 15 years before 2018, Shawn was responsible for the sales and marketing functions of Americollect. Helping grow Americollect by 4000% in that time.
Industry - Shawn is an active volunteer for HFMA Wisconsin. Shawn has served as the Region 7 RE, NAC Revenue Cycle Committee, President, President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer and three years as the VP of Programs. In 2020 he earned his HFMA Fellowship designation and was appointed to the HFMA National Advisory Council Revenue Cycle Committee for a two-year term. Shawn has been an active volunteer with AAHAM for several years and is a Past President of the Wisconsin Chapter. In 2010, Shawn was awarded the President’s Award for AAHAM Wisconsin.
Education - Shawn graduated from the UW Oshkosh with a bachelor’s degree in Business, majoring in Marketing and Operations Management. Shawn also graduated from UW Oshkosh’s EMBA program, with a Master’s of Business Administration in 2016.
Vice President: Luke Check
Current Role – In 2019, Luke Check was promoted to VP of Operations. Luke handles all things operations for Americollect including IT. Luke is responsible for optimizing recovery of accounts, portfolio and project workflows, IT success, and implementations of new technology and partners.
Historic Role – In 2008, Luke Checked officially joined Americollect in a sales role. Before that in college, he helped out with several different processes and as a collector over the summers while getting his degree. In 2015, Luke became the Director of EBO helping to build out the needed infrastructure for a standalone service offering.
Industry - Luke was the previous President of HFMA Eastern Michigan (now Great Lakes Chapter). Luke currently volunteers for ACA governmental relations committee to help shape regulations and responses to government agencies.
Education - Luke graduated from the UW Milwaukee with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.