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Jack W. Brown III Esq. is president of Gulf Coast Collection Bureau Inc. in Sarasota, Florida. Brown is a second-generation collection agency owner. As a longtime active ACA member, he chaired ACA’s Audit and Unit and State Affairs committees and earned ACA’s Fellow and Scholar designations as well as ACA’s Kurt Swersky Award, which recognized his leadership skills. He was elected to ACA’s Board of Directors in 2015 and served as 2018/19 ACA president. Brown continuously volunteers his time to the Florida Collectors Association and has served in several board roles, including president. He received ACA’s Unit Leader of the Year Award in 2013 for his lobbying efforts to remove or modify important sections of the Florida state statute to be less onerous for the ARM industry. Brown and Gulf Coast Collection Bureau successfully litigated the case of Mais v. Gulf Coast Collection Bureau Inc., which was pivotal in providing clarification of consent under the TCPA.