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COLORADO INVESTIGATIVE DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTE

INSTRUCTOR SPOTLIGHT

Rod Gagnon

Rod Gagnon has been involved in asset recovery and financial investigations for more than
thirty years. He started a repossession agency called Phoenix Collections & Investigations
at the age of 19 and built it into the largest collateral recovery firm in northern New
England. He credits these first years as foundational to his understanding how to find
hidden debtors (via pretexting and solid field work) and their assets (via research and pig-
headed tenacity). He sold this firm after a decade of ridiculously long hours and by request
of his wife.

Seeing an opportunity in the world of criminal record checks that was transitioning from
card files to computers, he formed New Hampshire Background Investigations with his
now much happier wife. Together, they built it into one of the largest criminal record
research services in New England. But after a decade of ridiculously long hours, they sold
the company in 2011 and moved to Colorado.

From late 2011 to 2017, Rod worked with Joe and Stephanie Dickerson at Financial Forensic
Services as a Senior Asset Analyst helping recover millions from judgment debtors. He left
FFS to form Recovery Analytics, where he now focuses on buying his own judgments to
collect (his wife, however, became a flight attendant).
Rod is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and has served on the PPIAC board as President,
Treasurer, VP of Membership, and as a Director. He is forming an Asset Recovery Analyst
school as well as an investment fund based on judgments.