Stacey Schacter

Stacey J. Schacter is the Founder, President, and CEO of VION Investments (also known as VION Receivable Investments), an Atlanta-headquartered international provider of receivable-investment services for businesses managing consumer and commercial receivables. The firm specializes in receivables purchasing, funding, and valuation-advisory services. Schacter brings more than three decades of experience in receivable buying, servicing, and collections across the financial sector.

Before founding VION, Schacter held a series of senior operating and legal leadership roles. He served as President of OSI Portfolio Services and as President, CEO, and Chief Legal Officer of EMCC, Inc., a Schottenstein Stores company. His professional expertise spans corporate law, securities, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, and restructuring — reflecting a hybrid legal-plus-operating career rather than a traditional venture-capital path.

Schacter is a lawyer by training. He earned a B.S. from Miami University and a J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (late 1980s). He is admitted to both the Ohio and Massachusetts Bars and is authorized to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been an active member of the American Bar Association's Business and Securities committees, served on the Board of Directors of the Debt Buyers Association (now the Receivables Management Association), and led its Certification Task Force, which established the first standards for debt buying in the United States.

His angel-investing / startup activity is primarily as a mentor, panelist, and "shark"-style judge for early-stage and student entrepreneurs. Notably, in 2022 he served as an industry partner, advisor, and panelist in the University of Pittsburgh's Entrepreneurship and New Venture Initiation program (led by Professor Sharon A. Alvarez), culminating in a December 2022 Shark Tank–style pitch event hosted at MHR Fund Management in New York. He is also a frequent author and speaker on the receivables and specialty-finance industry, including bylined pieces for American Banker.

• Operates as an individual angel / mentor-investor at the seed and pre-seed stage, most visibly through structured student and early-stage pitch programs rather than a formal fund.
• Brings a finance, legal, and operations lens — strengths in capital structure, receivables/cash-flow, distressed and consumer assets, M&A, and restructuring shape how he evaluates a business's fundamentals and funding needs.
• Values preparedness and professionalism in founders; the University of Pittsburgh panel he judged specifically praised teams for their professionalism and readiness.
• Firm-level statement of purpose: "Stacey is proud to have helped advise these promising students and to have a hand in preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs."
• No publicly stated fixed check size or narrow sector mandate — his early-stage engagement is broad and mentorship-oriented; his deepest domain expertise is in specialty finance and receivables.