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IFA Webinar – Ways to Exit a Distressed Company (Or Buy Into Factoring Opportunities)
Webinar – Ways to Exit a Distressed Company (Or Buy Into Factoring Opportunities)
When a client faces financial distress, quick thinking and the right strategy can make all the difference. Join Kenneth R. Yager, II, CTP, MBA, CRO, as he moderates an exclusive IFA webinar. Drawing from real-world turnaround experience, Ken will outline the full range of transactional paths—from fast, low-cost exits to complex restructurings—that help factors, advisors, and stakeholders seek new opportunities or maximize recovery and preserve long-term value. Whether you’re seeking cleaner exits, higher recoveries, or smarter new deal structures, this session will sharpen your decision-making when time and clarity matter most.
The Venue: Online Via Zoom
The Schedule:
- Wednesday, January 21, 2026: 11am – 12pm PT (Pacific)
Speakers:
Ken Yager – President, Newpoint Advisors Corporation
Ken Yager is the Founder and President of Newpoint Advisors Corporation and has over 35 years of executive experience in the turnaround management field. Ken is a nationally recognized name for helping small distressed businesses, and his team works nationwide, striving to be the person in the corner for small distressed companies. Ken regularly takes on profit and loss and risk-management responsibility for cash-constrained companies in growth, leveraged-buyout, and turnaround situations. He is also the innovator of Newpoint’s proprietary Turnaround Action Matrix Evaluation (TAME) , the only scientific methodology that provides a structured framework to help businesses identify and address distress and failure.
Jason Medley, Esq. – Partner, Spencer Fane
Jason Medley helps banks and other financial institutions structure transactions in a manner that enables them to be efficiently closed, allowing for key stakeholders to maximize benefits and avoid unnecessary delays or costs. His work fully encompasses all aspects of contract negotiations, workouts, intercreditor relations, and secured party collections. Jason represents banks, factoring companies (purchase and sale of accounts receivable), and real estate entities in a wide variety of transactional matters from due diligence to contract negotiations, workouts, intercreditor relations, and secured party collections. He has almost 25 years of extensive experience in asset-based loan (ABL) financing and uniquely serves as a preferred attorney for the International Factoring Association, which assists with providing information, training, purchasing power, and resources to the Factoring community.
Cole Harmonson – Co-Founder & CEO, Dare Capital
Cole Harmonson has been in the AR factoring and asset-based lending space his entire career, starting in commercial banking in El Paso, Texas in 1994. In 1996, Cole started State Bank’s working capital finance business, which was sold in 2006. In 2007, Cole co-founded Far West Capital, an independent AR Factoring and ABL company that was sold to Central Bank in Houston in 2018. Cole is CEO of Dare Capital in Rockwall, TX, which was co-founded in 2019 with industry veteran Debra Zukonik. Cole currently serves as a board member of the commercial factoring nonprofit organization, the American Factoring Association.
Brian Center – CEO, Quasar Capital Partners Inc.
With a strong entrepreneurial spirit and passion for growing and connecting small businesses to bigger opportunities, Brian Center is a finance industry veteran with more than three decades of experience providing clients with trusted expertise as he helps them achieve maximum funding by capitalizing on what others in the industry don’t see. Center is a firm believer in straight talk, peace-of-mind, and funding reliability as the cornerstones of building long-lasting relationships. Center has an impressive background holding numerous executive and senior management roles within the commercial finance and banking industry, where he has managed everything from rapidly changing portfolio acquisitions and complex strategies to translating sales success from the front line all the way to the executive office. Now the Chief Executive Officer of Quasar Capital, a commercial finance firm that provides small businesses in North America custom invoice factoring, asset-based lending, and cash flow lending solutions. Receiving his Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics from Texas Tech University, Center got his start in asset-based lending and over the years nurtured his networking and financial acumen to successfully manage, lead and own multiple companies. Center was previously President and Chief Credit Officer for Far West Capital. Previously, he was the co-owner and president of Comresco Capital, LLC, a factoring company founded in 2002 and sold to Bibby Financial in 2007. Center thrives on assisting clients from all walks of life to understand the broader world and their story within it by creating a value-added consultative affiliation and helping them launch and grow their business successfully.
Fee:
This webinar is FREE for IFA Members and Ally Members. ($100 for non-members)
A unique participant ID will be sent to all attendees.