Encompass Corporation has appointed former Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA) CEO Kate Sharp as an industry adviser.

She will be responsible for supporting and accelerating the company’s growth as a supplier of innovative visual analytics technology to the UK’s asset-based lending, factoring, and invoice discounting industries.

Sharp served as CEO of the Asset Based Finance Association from 2003 to 2014. She significantly raised the profile of invoice finance within government which ultimately resulted in significant changes to UK legislation in respect of bans on assignment. She was also instrumental in setting up the EU Federation for Factoring and Commercial Finance (EUF) and was made an honorary fellow of the Institute of Credit Management.

Encompass creates visual analytics software for entity data for professional and financial services companies.