Martin Lee
Principal

Mr. Lee has 35 years of banking/securities experience. His most recent experience was being employed by ACS/Unclaimed Property Recovery & Reporting, Inc. for a period of three years, from July 2001 to June 2004. In that time, Mr. Lee was responsible for all aspects of unclaimed property services to individual corporations, financial institutions and the states. Prior to that Mr. Lee served as the Chief Information Officer at Equiserve, Inc., a securities transfer agent from April 1998 to July 2001. Prior to 1998, Mr. Lee was employed by various banks including First Chicago Trust Company and J.P. Morgan Inc. Mr. Lee holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting and an advanced degree (MS) in Systems from Iona College.

Phone: 212-594-5487 x 222
Fax: 212-594-5571
Email: mlee@auditservicesus.com

J. Matthew Thornton
Principal

Prior to joining Audit Services in 2004, Mr. Thornton was a Vice President at ACS-Unclaimed Property Recovery & Reporting where he was responsible for the due diligence and escheatment programs for both the MetLife and John Hancock Demutualizations. Under these programs more than $2.5 Billion was either returned to owners or escheated to various states. He was also responsible for the Maximum Ownership Return program that targeted the return of property to high value shareholders for ACS-UPRR’s corporate actions customers. Before UPPR, Mr. Thornton was a Vice President/Senior Project Manager at Mellon Investor Services where he had a leadership role in several multi-million dollar, high profile projects including: MetLife’s Demutualization and IPO; the merger of NationsBank and BankAmerica; the relocation and reengineering of Investment Plan Services Department; the reengineering and expansion of Employee Products’ Client Implementation Team; implementation of a strategic alliance with JPMorgan / American Century; and the transition of significant systems development effort from external to internal support during the key rollout phase. Prior to Mellon Investor Services, Mr. Thornton was a Business Systems Consultant / Project Manager at American Management Systems, Inc. and Manager of Financial Planning, Analysis and Internal Consulting at First Chicago Trust Company of New York. Mr. Thornton holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MBA from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business and has earned a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from The Project Management Institute.

Phone: 212-594-5487 x 228
Fax: 212-594-5571
Email: mthornton@auditservicesus.com

R. Terry Allen
Chief Executive Officer

From 1980-1999, Mr. Allen served as the Administrator of the Massachusetts Escheat and Unclaimed Property Program. During that time he established a Program that increased yearly collections of unclaimed property from $2 million to over $33 million. In addition, funds returned to rightful owner increased from $191,000 to over $13 million per year. At the time of his retirement after 30 years of service with the State, Mr. Allen was the most senior unclaimed property administrator in the nation. He has served as an officer of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) in a number of capacities, including Secretary, Regional Vice President, and President. In addition, Mr. Allen served as the Committee Chairman on numerous NAUPA committees, including the State and Federal Relations, the State National Audit Program (SNAP), and the Nominating Committee. Mr. Allen also served as President of the States Clearinghouse of Unclaimed Treasures (SCOUT). He is a frequent speaker on the topic of unclaimed property at the NAUPA Conferences, as well as professional and civic groups. Mr. Allen holds an MPA degree from N.C. State University and is a graduate of the Government Executives Institute from the University of Massachusetts. In addition, Mr. Allen is also retired from the Massachusetts National Guard with 25 years of service and he currently serves as the Chairman for the Massachusetts Governor’s Community Resource Council for the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women. He presently maintains licenses for securities (Series 6 and 63) and insurance (life and health) in Massachusetts.

Phone: 919-469-8323
Fax: 919-460-3022
Email: tallen@auditservicesus.com

Lee R. Hines, CPA
Director of Audits

Mr. Hines began his employment in 1969 with the Massachusetts Department of Revenue as a Sales Tax Auditor, and later became a Foreign Corporation Income and Franchise Tax Auditor. In 1983 he went to work for the Massachusetts Department of State Treasurer and established their Escheat and Unclaimed Property Audit Program. Mr. Hines served as the Audit Manager, and until his retirement in October of 1999, he was the most senior State unclaimed property auditor in the nation. In November 1999 he began his employment with Audit Services. Lee is a member of the Triangle Chapter of the Association of Governmental Accountants, and he has completed the Certified Public Manager's Program and is a member of the Massachusetts and American Academy of Certified Public Managers. Mr. Hines has been on the audit agenda and professional development committees for the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators numerous times and has served as chairman of the Audit Agenda Committee in 1985 and 1990.

Phone: 919-772-7998
Fax: 919-772-7922
Email: lhines@auditservicesus.com

Wayne Kachelriess
Senior Auditor

Mr. Kachelriess has over 35 years experience in the unclaimed property reporting and financial services industry. The first part of his career was in senior internal audit management positions with Chase Manhattan Bank and The First National Bank of Chicago. This involved reviewing a wide range of bank products and operations in both domestic and international markets. The second part of Wayne’s financial services career was spent managing financial operations and other business units at First Chicago Trust/EquiServe including unclaimed property reporting, employee stock option plans, employee stock purchase plans, risk management and account reconciliations. After leaving the financial services industry Wayne modernized the financial activities and operations of the Beaufort (SC) Chamber of Commerce and designed and managed the accounting operations for the State of Florida’s 529 college savings investment plan. Wayne was with Unclaimed Property Recovery & Reporting for three and a half years. During this time he has managed general ledger research and advisory projects for a number of UPRR clients including two major insurance companies, a pharmaceutical company, an advertising agency and a multinational corporation. Wayne started with Audit Services US in April, 2008. Wayne has an undergraduate degree in Management from Monmouth University and Masters Degree in both Finance and Accounting from New York University. He is a Certified Trust Auditor and a veteran who served in the US Marine Corps.

Phone: 843-845-6206
Fax: 212-594-5571
Email: wkachelriess@auditservicesus.com

William W. Joseph Jr.
Reports and Processing Systems Manager

Mr. Joseph has experience in numerous software applications including Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Visual C++, HTML, Java, the entire Microsoft Office Suite, and COBOL. He has worked as the network administrator for Dunlop, Onderdonk and Wilson Corp., a small insurance agency that has since been sold and merged with Bollinger Inc. While working with Dunlop, Onderdonk and Wilson Corp., his duties included the day to day maintenance of the network, as well as training the employees how to use a Windows based PC software, and internet applications. He has created numerous professional websites for businesses and he is currently developing and new and improved Work-in-Progress Report that is individualized for State Unclaimed Property Offices across the nation. He is currently working on his Bachelors degree in Computer Science at William Paterson University with plans to obtain a Master’s Degree in Computer Science as well.

Phone: 212-594-5487 x 230
Fax: 212-594-5571
Email: wjoseph@auditservicesus.com