School Loans Corporation Appoints Meliss Hankin as Sr. Vice President of Business Development

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- School Loans Corporation (SLC), a leading financial services company specializing in the marketing and private labeling of education loans, today announced the hiring of Meliss Hankin for the newly created position of Sr. Vice President, Business Development. In this position, Ms. Hankin will oversee SLC's client relations, new business opportunities, portfolio growth, new product development, program management and sales.

"Ms. Hankin is a most welcome addition to our senior management team," said Dr. Maurice Salter, Founder, President and CEO of SLC. "Her long experience and results-driven approach will contribute considerably to our continuing efforts to expand our business opportunities while maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction."

Ms. Hankin joins SLC after a 23-year career with ACS Education Services, the nation's largest third party servicer of student loans and a subsidiary of ACS, a Fortune 500 company. Most recently, as Sr. Vice President, Guaranteed Loan Servicing Division, she managed a 700 employee division that provides business process outsourcing to lending institutions and secondary markets for student loan servicing and administration. During her time at ACS, she also held other management positions, including Vice President of Loan Origination and Client Relations, Director of Project Management-Government Contracting, Director of Guarantor Relations, Manager of Budgeting and Special Projects, and Manager of Client Relations. Ms. Hankin holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Law and Society from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"I'm thrilled at the opportunity to participate in SLC's future growth," said Hankin. "I look forward to working with a team of professionals who put their clients' interests and priorities above everything else."

About School Loans Corporation

School Loans Corporation, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Los Angeles, provides turnkey solutions to its clients for cost-effectively marketing and processing a full range of student loan products directly to consumers. In these partnerships SLC holds itself to a standard of complete transparency, technically and strategically integrating operations with each partner to become functionally invisible to the borrower.

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