Employee Spotlight

Ross Corbat’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing. Zach Felty, his former boss at Burger King, was on a mission. Zach had left his general manager role at Burger King to join Gateway Financial Solutions a year earlier. Now, he wanted Ross to do the same. “For an entire year, Zach would call me and say, ‘You …

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Nearly 12 years ago, Collin Grabowski’s life looked a lot different than it does now. “In October 2010, I was a mess,” he admitted. Rightfully so. Life had handed Collin difficult hardships back-to-back. A few years earlier, his mother had passed away when he was just 22 years old. Then, after he purchased his parents’ …

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It’s another afternoon at Garber’s headquarters in Saginaw, Michigan. The sounds of a solid work day echo through the air: people talking, typing, meeting, learning, completing, succeeding. Alyssa Arroyo — bankruptcy specialist at Gateway Financial Solutions upstairs — is downstairs in the break room. With her cell phone in hand, she heads to Dick Garber’s …

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In an earlier chapter of her life, Kala Smith worked as a recruiter for a financial services company. Then the tables turned. The recruiter became the recruited. “In January 2013, I met Erika Ardouin [Director of Recruitment for Garber] at a career fair,” Kala said. “I was recruiting and so was she. At the time, …

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Tracie Page remembers the exact date she got hired at Gateway Financial Solutions. “I started working here on January 22, 2007,” she said. “I keep it on my calendar. That date means something to me. The company has grown so much since then.” As a collection associate for 14 years, Tracie helps people improve their …

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