United PanAm Financial Corp. Announces Appointment of Chief Executive Officer
29 Julio 2008 - 8:00PM
Business Wire
United PanAm Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: UPFC) and its subsidiaries
announced today the appointment of Jim Vagim as chief executive
officer of UPFC, and announced the termination of Ray Thousand as
chief executive officer and Stacy Friederichsen as chief operating
officer all effective as of July 25, 2008. Mr. Vagim was formerly
President of Westlake Financial, a non-prime automobile finance
company of similar size to UPFC, where Mr. Vagim spent more than 20
years in various executive positions until his resignation in 2007.
Guillermo Bron, the Chairman of the Board, stated, �We want to
recognize and thank Mr. Thousand for the contributions and
accomplishments during his tenure as our chief executive officer
and for assembling an outstanding management team.� Mr. Bron also
stated, �UPFC is restructuring its staffing at this time and does
not intend hire a replacement chief operating officer.� The
termination of Mr. Thousand could adversely affect UPFC�s warehouse
line of credit with Deutsche Bank and UPFC�s six outstanding
securitizations. Unless Deutsche Bank approves the appointment of
Mr. Vagim as the replacement chief executive officer, it could
exercise its rights to terminate the warehouse line of credit and
declare all amounts owed under UPFC�s warehouse facility as
immediately due and payable. Additionally, unless Mr. Vagim is
approved by the various insurance providers that insure UPFC�s six
outstanding securitizations, the termination of Mr. Thousand is a
potential insurance event of default and each insurance provider
may elect to enforce the various rights and remedies that are
governed by the different transaction documents for each
securitization. UPFC is in the process of obtaining approval of Mr.
Vagim as UPFC�s chief executive officer from Deutsche�Bank and the
insurance providers, but there is no assurance�UPFC will obtain
such approvals. UPFC is a specialty finance company engaged in
automobile finance, which includes the purchasing, warehousing,
securitizing and servicing of automobile installment sales
contracts originated by independent and franchised dealers of used
automobiles. UPFC conducts its automobile finance business through
its wholly-owned subsidiary, United Auto Credit Corporation, with
branch offices in 36 states. Forward Looking Statements This press
release may contain forward-looking statements as referenced in the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements are inherently unreliable and actual results may vary.
Factors which could cause actual results to differ from these
forward-looking statements include changes in the competitive
marketplace, changes in the interest rate environment, economic
conditions, outcome of pending litigation, risks associated with
credit quality and other factors discussed in the company�s filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company undertakes
no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise.
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