Joe Adams Tapped as Keynote Speaker at the American Gas Association's Uncollectibles Workshop

Washington, DC — Joe Adams, Managing Principal of the Hampton Pryor Group, LLC has been chosen to give the Keynote address at the American Gas Association’ s Uncollectibles Workshop. This year the conference will be held on October 6-7 at the Hilton Burlington Hotel in Burlington, Vermont.

‘I’m honored to be asked to set the tone of the conference’ stated Mr. Adams, a well known and respected 25 year veteran of the accounts receivable management industry. The title of his talk, Navigating Credit Risk in These Turbulent Times, will cover the credit and collections challenges that currently exist, while offering strategies to increase customer payments. ‘While the country is showing signs of an economic recovery, we are still operating in an environment of record unemployment and home foreclosures’ continues Mr. Adams.

States Jim Linn, Staff Executive at the aga.org "The objective of the conference is to learn about recent techniques to address uncollectible accounts, to share information with industry colleagues and to achieve lower uncollectible accounts at the attendee’s utility. We are looking forward to hearing Joe’s experience and wisdom to assist in understanding the issue of uncollectible accounts and how to address this issue with local utilities."

In its 6th year, the conference traditionally attended by credit and collections managers from utilities across the nation.

About the American Gas Association
AGA, headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., is the national trade association representing energy utilities that deliver natural gas. The 200 distribution member companies, located in all 50 states, deliver natural gas to 64 million customers throughout the US. Membership includes publicly traded energy utilities, municipally owned and privately held companies. The AGA mission is to serve as the advocate on behalf of energy utilities that deliver natural gas, as well as to assist our member companies in their efforts to achieve operational excellence and sustained growth.

About The Hampton Pryor Group, LLC
Located in Irving, Texas, The Hampton Pryor Group, LLC offers advisory and consultant services to the accounts receivables management (ARM) community. Consisting of two divisions, Hampton Pryor Consulting and HP Portfolio Management Services, our company partners with yours to improve your collections and recovery operations while containing risk and reducing bottom line losses. This is accomplished using a suite of strategic and tactical offerings which address the key components of collections and recovery management. With over 75 years of senior, executive and "C" level management experience across the full spectrum of ARM verticals, our consultants have a proven track record or creating, training and managing high performing accounts receivables teams.