Post 200: Top D.C.-Area Businesses

Intersections / INTX

About Intersections

14901 Bogle Dr., Chantilly, Va. 20151
www.intersections.com | 703-488-6100 | Founded: 1996

Industry: Financial Services | Category: Public Companies

Ten-year-old Intersections, which went public two years ago, seeks to benefit from a growth market: identity theft. In 2005, a new federal law requiring credit-reporting agencies to provide credit reports helped heighten consumer awareness of the problem. The company, which provides daily credit checks and fraud insurance, had about 3.6 million customers at the end of 2005, up from 2.9 million customers in 2004 and 2.3 million in 2003.
Competition continues to grow, however, and the company lost a big contract to provide services to American Express customers, a loss that company officials say likely will cause its customer base to dip, at least temporarily. But the company also signed contracts with two of the nation's biggest banks in the second half of 2005, though it said it will not name names until later this year. Those contracts promise to offset and possibly exceed losses from the American Express account, though typically it takes a year from the signing of a new contract before new customers materialize, according to company chief executive and co-founder Michael R. Stanfield.
And profit growth might not match growth in new customers, despite the company's effort to develop new protection products, company executives said. That's because of investments in new technology the company must make to keep pace and expand in consumer markets.
The company earned $12.5 million on revenue of $165.2 million in 2005, compared with a profit of $10.9 million on revenue of $152.9 million in 2004. Much of 2005's increase in revenue came from American Background Information Services Inc., which Intersections bought in November 2004.

2005 Financial Data

Revenues: $165,171,000 | Net Income: $12,470,000
Asssets: $123,187,000 | Earnings Per Share: $0.70
Total employees: 630 | Local employees: 355

Company Leadership

Michael R. Stanfield CEO
Kenneth D. Schwarz President, consumer and small business solutions
George K. Tsantes EVP
Neal Dittersdorf Chief legal officer
Charles P. Garner Chief marketing officer

Source: Compensation data provided by Equilar, Inc..

Michael R. Stanfield
CEO
$2,590,124
Salary: $400,000
Kenneth D. Schwarz
President, consumer and small business solutions
$1,400,119
Salary: $300,000
George K. Tsantes
EVP
$1,323,869
Salary: $239,019
Neal Dittersdorf
Chief legal officer
$752,636
Salary: $265,000
Charles P. Garner
Chief marketing officer
$735,712
Salary: $265,000

Did You Know

Intersections Inc. provides credit-management and identity-theft protection and recovery services. It markets these services directly to consumers under the brand names Identity Guard and CreditProtect. It also markets them indirectly through credit card and financial companies that offer Intersections' services to their customers, either under the Intersections brand or their own name. It also offers pre-employment background checks for companies.

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