Our Team & Investors

History of accomplishments in associations, private higher education, and health care. Demonstrated leadership in raising nearly $100 million through comprehensive campaigns, major gift and annual fundraising; community grant making; corporate and foundation relations; marketing, advertising and public relations; organizational and financial management; board management and recruitment. Experience in campus technology and master planning, major facility construction, and tax-exempt bond financing. Knowledge and understanding of diverse Northwest and Pacific Island diverse communities. Strong communication skills in office, boardroom and constituent levels. Successful in developing and mentoring staff. Host and producer of "The Credit Roundtable" podcast designed for commercial credit professionals and others interested in the important but often forgotten world of the credit department.

With over 25 years’ experience in the building materials industry, Jen is focused on promoting robust process and credit best practices that produce measurable results and excellence in cashflow management. A strong advocate of the “credit is an extension of sales” philosophy allows her to create value and lasting relationships with sub-contractors, GCs, vendors, and suppliers alike. Jen began her career in project administration, working on local construction sites with general contractors, Etkin Skanska and Neenan Archistruction, before settling in the credit & collection field. After graduating with honors and a degree in business management from Regis University, she advanced thru national leadership positions with Lafarge Holcim and the Roofing Supply Group; including roles in sales leadership and order to cash optimization, these experiences helped hone her focus on relationships, customer needs and the importance of cashflow. Jen currently serves as Senior Director of Credit & Accounts Receivable for Kodiak Building Partners, charting a new path to receivable & collection excellence by empowering local credit professionals to excel at credit best practices while keeping decision making close to the customer.

Craig Webb is president of Webb Analytics and one of the nation’s leading experts on building material dealers and distributors. He spent 12 years as editor-in-chief of ProSales, the nation’s most honored publication for building material dealers, as well as five years as editor-in-chief of Remodeling magazine. Webb Analytics builds and expands on Craig’s lifelong career in the news and information businesses. He has worked for The Wall Street Journal, McGraw-Hill, United Press International and a variety of magazines, newsletters and newspapers in the U.S. and Europe. He has traveled to 49 states and several foreign countries visiting dealers, builders and remodelers. That legwork is the foundation of the research, data reports, speeches, and consulting that Webb Analytics has provided since its founding in September 2018. Webb was born just outside Washington, D.C., grew up in South Bend, Ind., and received his bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from Indiana University in 1976. He lives in Washington.

A credit & finance leader in the building material supply space for over 15 years, today Rachel is the Director of Financial Services for one of the Country’s largest roofing material distributors, SRS Distribution. She leads a team of credit professionals who are responsible for Credit/Finance decisions for 111 branches with A/R that exceeds 1.5B annually and is still growing. She strongly believes that partnering with sales is key and building relationships are 2 building blocks needed for a successful credit department along with following basic credit fundamentals and listening to your GUT. Rachel started her career in Credit at Shelter Distribution in 2005 in Accounts Receivable. After Beacon acquired Shelter Distribution in late 2005, Rachel quickly moved into the Credit Department as a Credit Manager working her way up to Regional Credit Manager responsible for $1.2B in receivables across 75 branches. She managed a team of whose portfolios included residential and commercial roofing, waterproofing, insulation and other complementary building products such as siding, windows and stucco. Rachel is in her third year as a Board Member for the National Women in Roofing (NWIR)’s DFW Council. She is also a member of SRS Women’s Leadership Forum. She also participates heavily in NACM Southwest credit groups along with Texas Statewide Construction group. Originally from Austin, Rachel currently resides in McKinney with her husband David and their blended family of six children (1 girl and 5 boys ranging from 13 to 27 years of age). In her spare time she enjoys camping, fishing, spending time at the lake or the beach as well as taking vacations to new places.

For more than 15 years, Barry has been the Credit Director for Emser Tile, the leading supplier of the world’s finest tile and natural stone, servicing over 10k active accounts for homebuilders, commercial builders, contractors, architects, and others in the building industry. His time at Emser Tile is part of his 25+ years of credit and leadership experience. He is an Executive Award winner at NACM’s Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management (2017-18), and a graduate of the University of Southern California.

Thea has over 30 years of credit, collection management experience, developing effective shared services processes and assessing company’s back office needs to improve efficiencies. Highly skilled in all area’s of the credit and collections process, negotiations and communication in construction industry working in with manufacturers, dealers, general contractors and sub-contractors. In her over three decades of work as a credit and collections officer, Thea Dudley, known in the industry as the Credit Overlord, has trekked across deserts to recover goods, taken FBI interrogation classes to learn negotiators “tells” and suffered through more lame reasons for extending credit then she can count. She knows how to decide whose worthy of credit and how to go after those who abuse the privilege. Starting her career working for her sub-contractor father, she went on to work with leading industry distribution companies, including her husband’s family lumber business, working in and leading the one person – nationwide credit teams, serving as Vice President of Financial Services at Guardian Building Products and SRS Distribution, Inc. before starting Pocket Protectors LLC. Thea is an inspiring leader and coach who promotes the philosophy of there is enough spotlight for everyone to contribute and shine while bringing out the most from her teams. Her focus on building customer focused teams who understand sales and credit go hand in hand. She is a national speaker, author and columnist. Her work appears in LBM Journal and ProSales Magazine and serves on several Industry Boards. She is the author of The Credit Overlord’s Guide to Credit & Collections. You can hear her views on credit, collections and sales reps on Bradley Hartman’s Behind your Back Podcast, The Roofers Show Podcast, along National Association of Credit Managers Business Credit Services Podcasts, or catch one of her many speaking engagements or replays.