Paul Metivier has been promoted to President of Florida-based Impact RTO Holdings dba Rent-A-Center, as of the beginning of the year. Metivier was promoted from Vice President of Operations at Impact RTO, which currently has 77 locations across 8 states.
Metivier has been in rent-to-own since 2001, when he joined Rent-A-Center as a customer account representative.
"I had graduated from the University of South Florida, and was working as a commercial real-estate appraiser and analyst for PricewaterhouseCoopers," Metivier says. "I was bored and seriously unmotivated. At a family gathering, my brother-in-law Corey Casey - who was a RAC Store Manager - told me I'd be a natural in rent-to-own, make more money, and have way more fun. Well, in 2001, the accounting world was shaken up by the Enron scandal, and PwC began massive layoffs. I lost my job, and spent the next few months interviewing for positions at several smaller accounting firms, but I never forgot what Corey had said."
Metivier finally applied at Rent-A-Center, and the rest is, as they say, history. He moved up in the company quickly, becoming a District Manager before joining Impact RTO ten years ago.