David Schmidt

Founder

David Schmidt founded A2 Resources in 1994, a management consultancy focusing on credit, collections, and receivables improvement along with small business data intelligence; besides working with corporations and financial services firms, David also serves as a leading industry analyst covering the B2B order-to-cash automation marketplace. He also recently became a member of Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) LLC, which has a similar focus.

Prior to A2 Resources, he managed credit departments in corporate manufacturing and distribution environments for 16 years; he is also an alumnus of Dun & Bradstreet David has conducted workshops across North America as well as online on a variety of credit and collections improvement and receivables automation topics and has been a speaker at NACM, CRF, and AFP conferences.

He is co-author of the seminal text on collection automation, "Power Collecting: Automation for Effective Asset Management," 1998, John Wiley & Sons, NYC .

David is also the author of hundreds of articles published in a variety of publications, including Business Finance, Collections Advisor, Business Credit, the Credit & Financial Management Review, the Credit and Collections Manager’s Letter, and was a long-time editor at Credit Today He has worked with the Credit Research Foundation, Federation of Credit & Financial Professionals, Institute of Financial Management, as well as the NACM and many of its affiliates.