Edward Vasques

Edward (Ed) Vasques serves as the Chief Operating Officer at UGA Finance. Mr. Vasques has more than 16 years of experience in the financial industry including several years in collections and consumer financing.

With a B.S. in Communications, Edward began his career as an entry-level representative for the nation’s largest third-party collection agency, where he quickly rose to the position of General Collection Manager. Edward then joined one of the nation’s largest debt purchase and servicing companies as Director of Operations. He continued to develop his skills in asset management and personnel development with a staff of over 80 employees. Edward found success building first-party collection programs for industry leaders in advertising, truck driver training and logistics.

Ed was initially brought into UGA Finance to run the collections agency. During that time, he also oversaw the billing department. Over time he began to take responsibility within the credit department and eventually, took over all of operations. Now, Mr. Vasques has now been with UGA Finance for over 12 years and serves as the Vice President of the company and is part owner.