News — Personnel Announcements
Vargo Joins Wells Fargo as SVP in Chicago
Wells Fargo said that James K. Vargo has joined its growing commercial banking team in Chicago as senior vice president and business development officer.
Read more...Date Posted May 22, 2013
TD Equipment Finance Appoints Senior Regional Director
Kevin J. Doyle was promoted to senior regional director with TD Equipment Finance in Braintree, MA. Prior to joining TD Bank in 2007, he worked at GE Capital and Bank of America.
Read more...Date Posted May 22, 2013
Former CIT Exec Votek Joins Annaly Capital as CAO
Annaly Capital Management announced that Glenn Votek has been appointed its chief administrative officer. Votek was previously with CIT Group where he was an EVP and treasurer and president of Consumer Finance.
Read more...Date Posted May 21, 2013
Key Equipment Finance Names West Coast Sales Manager
Key Equipment Finance said it has named Joe Mazzoni west coast sales manager. Previously, Mazzoni was western region manager for Hewlett Packard Financial and president and CEO of North American Funding.
Read more...Date Posted May 21, 2013
Wells Fargo Names SVP of Healthcare Financial Services
Wells Fargo Government and Institutional Banking said it has named Keith Grundy as regional manager and SVP of Healthcare Financial Services (HFS) team in the western U.S.
Read more...Date Posted May 21, 2013
Felix Joins WFCF Healthcare Finance Team
Wells Fargo Capital Finance appointed Rossi Felix as managing director within its Healthcare Finance Group. Previously, Felix held senior management positions at GMAC Health Capital and GE Healthcare Financial Services.
Read more...Date Posted May 20, 2013
GSG Financial Expands Sales/Marketing Team
GSG Financial said it has added Randol Jackson and Katharine Harris to its sales and marketing force.
Read more...Date Posted May 16, 2013
Locher Joins Presidential Financial as SVP, BDO
Presidential Financial said Mark J. Locher joined the company as SVP, BDO. Locher previously held senior origination positions with NewStar Business Credit, ORIX Leveraged Finance and BMO Capital Markets.
Read more...Date Posted May 16, 2013
Bibby Financial Names Head of Midwest Operations
Bibby Financial said Kate Smith has been promoted to head of operations, Midwest, responsible for managing the operations team and growing the portfolio.
Read more...Date Posted May 15, 2013
CapStar Expands Commercial Finance Team
CapStar Bank EVP Lee Palm has announced that Jim Ward, Larry Hawk and Tebin McDowell have joined CapStar’s Commercial Finance team as account executives.
Read more...Date Posted May 10, 2013
RBS Names Van Saun to Replace Alemany as Citizens CEO
RBS said it has appointed current group finance director Bruce Van Saun as chairman and chief executive of Citizens Financial, replacing Ellen Alemany.
Read more...Date Posted May 10, 2013
Capital One Hires Eight New Equipment Finance Officers
Capital One announced a major expansion of its Equipment Finance business, with the appointment of eight new sales officers. The new team members average more than 20 years of experience in equipment leasing and financing.
Read more...Date Posted May 9, 2013
SunTrust Equipment Finance Hires Marketing VP
Judith Mencke joined SunTrust Equipment Finance & Leasing as marketing VP of the Bank Client Group. Her experience in bank equipment financing includes working with Wells Fargo, Wachovia, SouthTrust Bank and GE.
Read more...Date Posted May 8, 2013
GE Appoints GE Capital’s Colao New Company Officer
GE announced the appointment of Daniel O. Colao to vice president, financial planning & analysis, GE Capital.
Read more...Date Posted May 7, 2013
Maxim Commercial Capital Hires Business Development Director
Commercial finance company Maxim Commercial Capital announced the hire of Mae Philpott as the company’s business development director. Philpott was previously with Dakota Financial as the sales & marketing director.
Read more...Date Posted May 6, 2013
Signature Bank Appoints Three Private Client Banking Teams
Signature Bank announced the appointment of three private client banking teams, totaling ten new hires.
Read more...Date Posted May 2, 2013
Former CIT CIO Joins The Alta Group
The Alta Group said it has appointed Roberto Fernandez as business process and applications consultant for its Latin American region. Fernandez was previously CIT’s VP and CIO in Latin America.
Read more...Date Posted May 2, 2013
PHH Arval Names VP/Business Development, Eastern Canada
PHH Arval announced that Patricia Furgiuele has been named vice president of business development for Eastern Canada.
Read more...Date Posted May 2, 2013
Fifth Third Names Ex-Citibank Exec Chief Marketing Officer
Fifth Third said it has named Maria Veltre as SVP and chief marketing officer. She has held marketing leadership positions at Citibank, JPMorgan Chase and GE Capital.
Read more...Date Posted May 2, 2013
CIT Trade Finance Names Northeast Sales Manager
CIT said that Todd Harrington has been named Northeast regional sales manager of CIT Trade Finance. Previously, Harrington was managing director and chief sales officer for CIT’s Small Business Lending group.
Read more...Date Posted April 29, 2013
Univest Names Ex-DLL VP as Business Development Manager
Univest Capital said it has appointed Curtis Freifelder to VP and business development manager. He joins Univest after serving as U.S. region VP for De Lage Landen.
Read more...Date Posted April 29, 2013
CHP Consulting Names Automotive Finance Global Head
CHP Consulting said it has appointed Robert Johnson as global head of automotive finance. He will be based in the U.S.
Read more...Date Posted April 23, 2013
EverBank Commercial Finance to Grow Healthcare Platform
EverBank Commercial Finance said it added Mike Foster as business development manager to its growing healthcare platform. He previously served at Marlin Business Services.
Read more...Date Posted April 19, 2013
CIT Vendor Expands U.S. Healthcare Financing Group
CIT Vendor Finance announced the expansion of its U.S. Healthcare Equipment Financing group with the hiring of Timothy Morris, William Tice, Charles Phillips and Ian Fine as sales managers.
Read more...Date Posted April 18, 2013
AeroCentury Appoints EMEA Managing Director
Aircraft leasing company AeroCentury said it appointed Martin Wills as managing director, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Wills has held senior management positions with AerCap, Seabury and SGI Aviation.
Read more...Date Posted April 16, 2013
NewStar Financial Hires Managing Director in Chicago
NewStar Financial said it has hired banker Wes Frangul as a managing director in its Chicago office. Frangul will join Jason Wendorf and Eric Barton to broaden NewStar’s regional marketing activities.
Read more...Date Posted April 15, 2013
Beacon Funding Adds Oshel to Equipment Financing Team
Beacon Funding said it has added Scott Oshel to its equipment financing team. Prior to joining Beacon, he served as VP of sales for a NJ-based equipment leasing company.
Read more...Date Posted April 11, 2013
NXT Capital Names Head of Healthcare Finance
NXT Capital said it hired Stuart Smartt as managing director, head of Healthcare, for the Corporate Finance Group. He joins NXT Capital from CIT, where he was a director in the company’s Healthcare group.
Read more...Date Posted April 10, 2013
On Deck Adds Lu as VP, Capital Markets
On Deck announced that Zhengyuan Lu has been named VP of Capital Markets. Previously, he was managing director of Gleacher & Company’s Asset Finance Group.
Read more...Date Posted April 9, 2013
Cole Taylor EF Hires Sr. Syndicator; Opens CA Office
Cole Taylor Equipment Finance said it hired of Eric Staczek as SVP, syndications. In addition, the company announced the opening of a new office in San Clemente, CA, which will be led by Jeffrey M. Giannelli.
Read more...Date Posted April 5, 2013
Wells Fargo Hires VP for Chicago Middle Market
Wells Fargo said it has hired Keith Plummer as vice president and relationship manager. Plummer, previously with JPMorgan Chase, will focus on serving middle-market customers in Chicago.
Read more...Date Posted April 5, 2013
Onset Financial Promotes Atwood to Finance VP
Onset Financial said it has promoted Remington Atwood to VP of finance.
Read more...Date Posted April 5, 2013
Key Equipment Finance Names VP, Federal Sales
Key Equipment Finance said it has named Kristina M. Decker vice president of federal sales for Key Government Finance.
Read more...Date Posted April 4, 2013
MC Healthcare Finance Hires Managing Director
MC Healthcare Finance, an affiliate of Monroe Capital LLC, said Glenn Flinn has joined the firm as a managing director to establish a Dallas office. He previously served with CapitalSource Finance, Healthcare Financial Partners, Heller Financial and GE Capital.
Read more...Date Posted April 4, 2013
Eastern Funding Promotes Gramaglia, Stern to EVP
Eastern Funding recently promoted Stephen Gramaglia and Marc Stern to EVP. Gramaglia was previously SVP of operations. Stern will continue to hold his role as chief credit officer.
Read more...Date Posted April 4, 2013
Kluga to Lead Popular Equipment Finance
Popular Community Bank announced the appointment of Dale Kluga to lead its national equipment finance business, Popular Equipment Finance.
Read more...Date Posted April 3, 2013
Onset Financial Hires Operations SVP
Onset Financial said it has added Nancy Eggan as senior vice president of Operations.
Read more...Date Posted April 3, 2013
Isuzu Finance Names Rowan District Manager
Isuzu Finance of America said it has hired Jim Rowan as district manager responsible for sales functions in the southeastern U.S. Most recently he was the southeast sales director for De Lage Landen.
Read more...Date Posted April 3, 2013
EverBank Commercial Adds Salino to Sales Team
EverBank Commercial Finance announced that it named Jody Salino as the office products sales director for the firm’s western region. He joins EverBank from De Lage Landen.
Read more...Date Posted April 3, 2013
SunTrust Equipment Finance Hires Marketing VP
SunTrust Equipment Finance & Leasing said it has hired Geralyn Kaiser as marketing vice president of its Bank Client Group.
Read more...Date Posted March 29, 2013
Rabo AgriFinance Promotes Haezebroeck to Vendor Finance SVP
According to a post on CropLife, Rabo AgriFinance has promoted Brian Haezebroeck to senior vice president, managing director – Vendor Finance.
Read more...Date Posted March 28, 2013
EverBank Commercial Finance Expands Sales Team
EverBank Commercial Finance said it has named Jeff Stellinga as the office products sales director for the firm’s Eastern region. He previously served at CoActiv Capital as a regional sales director.
Read more...Date Posted March 27, 2013
Chicago Freight Car Leasing Hires VP/Sales
Chicago Freight Car Leasing announced that Rhonda Zielinski has joined the company as vice president of sales and customer support. Zielinski was previously with Navistar.
Read more...Date Posted March 26, 2013
SunTrust EF Names Direct Client Marketing VP
SunTrust Equipment Finance & Leasing has named Chris Holm as marketing VP of the Direct Client Group. He joins SunTrust from Hawker Beechcraft.
Read more...Date Posted March 22, 2013
Wells Fargo Commercial Banking Names Loan Team Leader
Wells Fargo said it appointed Jim Meyer, who has served commercial banking customers for more than 30 years, as a senior vice president to lead Commercial Banking in southeast Wisconsin.
Read more...Date Posted March 22, 2013
Dynamic Funding Adds Business Development Officer
Dynamic Funding, a Colorado-based equipment leasing company, said it added Scott Jordan as business development officer.
Read more...Date Posted March 21, 2013
Key Equipment Finance Names North American Rail Director
Key Equipment Finance said it has named Andrew J. Falcone director, North American rail. Before joining Key, Falcone spent 19 years at BTMU Capital, the last two years as managing director of Beacon Rail Leasing.
Read more...Date Posted March 19, 2013
BancLease Appoints Mitch Larkin Sales VP
BancLease Acceptance said that Mitch Larkin has been appointed vice president of sales and will operate a satellite office in a suburb of Baltimore, MD.
Read more...Date Posted March 18, 2013
JDR Solutions Names VP/Consulting Services
JDR Solutions said that Anthony McCormick has joined the company as vice president – Consulting Services. He most recently served as a senior business analyst and project manager for Marlin Leasing.
Read more...Date Posted March 15, 2013
TIP Capital Specialty Markets Group Adds VPs
TIP Capital said it hired Jim Merrilees and Bruce Braviroff as vice presidents of National Accounts for the Specialty Markets Group, which works with equipment manufacturers to develop turn-key financing solutions for their products.
Read more...Date Posted March 14, 2013
SunTrust Equipment Finance Hires Marketing VPs
SunTrust Equipment Finance & Leasing said it has hired Lea Reeves and Bob Sommers as marketing VPs based out of Atlanta and Washington D.C., respectively.
Read more...Date Posted March 13, 2013
ATEL Securities Names Northwest Regional Vice President
ATEL Securities said it named Conan Porter as Northwest regional vice president. Prior to joining ATEL, Porter was VP with Legg Mason Global Asset Management.
Read more...Date Posted March 12, 2013
Webster Hires Former GE Franchise Finance VP
Webster Bank announced that Abdallah Igram has joined the bank as SVP, senior relationship manager. Igram was previously with GE Capital Franchise Finance as VP, Northeast originations.
Read more...Date Posted March 11, 2013
Chase Names Walker Head of Middle Market Banking
Chase announced that Steve Walker has been named national head of Core Middle Market Banking, which serves companies with annual revenues between $20 million to $500 million.
Read more...Date Posted March 11, 2013
Willis Lease Promotes Poulakidas to Executive Team
Willis Lease Finance said that Tom Nord, SVP and general counsel, will retire on March 31, 2013. Dean Poulakidas, currently senior counsel, will succeed Nord as general counsel.
Read more...Date Posted March 6, 2013
The Alta Group Names Wilton Managing Director
The Alta Group said it has appointed Keith A. Wilton as a managing director. He most recently served as executive vice president at Pacific Capital Bancorp.
Read more...Date Posted March 4, 2013
Former Element Financial Exec Joins Waterpoint Financial
Waterpoint Financial announced the appointment of Jim More to the position of senior EVP responsible for the company’s financial and M&A strategies. More was previously with Element Financial where he led funding and M&A strategies.
Read more...Date Posted March 4, 2013
Summit Funding Appoints Legal, Healthcare BDOs
Summit Funding Group said it has added John Dondey and Dean Morrison as national business development officers in the legal and healthcare segments.
Read more...Date Posted March 1, 2013
Wells Fargo EF Names VP, Office Equipment Finance Division
Wells Fargo Equipment Finance said it has named Rob Parker as vice president of its Office Equipment Finance division. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Parker spent ten years with U.S. Bank Equipment Finance.
Read more...Date Posted February 28, 2013
ATEL Leasing Expands Capital Markets Team
ATEL Leasing said it has added Andrew Sisti and Steven Spivey as senior vice presidents, Capital Markets, based out of New York and Maryland, respectively.
Read more...Date Posted February 27, 2013
Northland Appoints National Healthcare Marketing Manager
Northland Capital said it has appointed John Korte as national marketing manager in Healthcare. Korte previously worked with U.S. Bank, TCF Equipment Finance and Optum Health Financial.
Read more...Date Posted February 27, 2013
Engs Adds to Vendor Transportation Sales Team
Engs Commercial Finance said it is expanding its vendor based Transportation Equipment Finance group and has hired Matt Vargo as business development manager covering Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Read more...Date Posted February 27, 2013
LEAF Names Downing as Southwest Sales Manager
LEAF Commercial Capital said it has hired Gina Downing as its regional sales manager for the Southwest sales region. Over the course of her career, she worked with GE Capital, Copelco Capital, CitiCapital and most recently with CIT.
Read more...Date Posted February 26, 2013
Narayan Joins Ally Commercial Finance Healthcare Group
Ally Commercial Finance hired Sanjeev Narayan as a managing director in the Healthcare Capital Group. He has previously worked in the healthcare groups at Fifth Third, Union Bank and Merrill Lynch Capital.
Read more...Date Posted February 26, 2013
Chase Names Walker National Head of Mid-Market Banking
Steve Walker was named national head of Chase Commercial Banking’s Core Middle Market Banking group. He has spent the majority of his banking tenure with Chase and its predecessors, Texas Commerce Bank and Bank One.
Read more...Date Posted February 26, 2013
TD Bank Names Regional President for Florida
TD Bank said it has named Jesus “Ernie” Diaz regional president for Florida.
Read more...Date Posted February 26, 2013
Balboa Capital Adds to Franchise Financing Team
Balboa Capital said it appointed Angela Stoltenberg-Anderson as director of business development for the Franchise Division, Vendor Services Group.
Read more...Date Posted February 22, 2013
CoreTech Leasing Hires US Bank EF Veteran Henderson
CoreTech Leasing announced that industry veteran Mike Henderson has joined the company to take on responsibilities in account management and business development for the firm.
Read more...Date Posted February 21, 2013
Capital One’s Stuart Named to LSU Business Hall of Distinction
Robert M. Stuart, Jr., head of middle-market commercial banking and Louisiana state president for Capital One Bank, has been selected for induction into the LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business Hall of Distinction.
Read more...Date Posted February 20, 2013
De Lage Landen Names Managing Director for Americas Region
De Lage Landen said that Carlo van Kemenade will join the company’s executive board and has been appointed managing director for the Americas Region.
Read more...Date Posted February 20, 2013
Fifth Third Names VP of Commercial Middle Market
Fifth Third said it has named Thomas Ross as vice president and Commercial Middle Market team leader for the bank’s northern Indiana market.
Read more...Date Posted February 19, 2013
Wells Fargo Names Handley to Lead New AR Office
Wells Fargo announced it opened a new commercial banking office in Little Rock, AR and has named Kevin Handley, senior vice president to the lead the new office.
Read more...Date Posted February 19, 2013
PNC’s Demchak to Succeed Rohr as CEO
PNC Financial said its board elected president William S. Demchak as director and announced that he will succeed chairman James E. Rohr, who will be retiring, as chief executive officer.
Read more...Date Posted February 15, 2013
Monroe Capital Hires Ex-GE Capital SVP as Managing Director
Monroe Capital LLC said Jeffrey Kolke has joined the firm as managing director in its Chicago office. Prior to Monroe, Kolke was a senior vice president at GE Capital, where he spent 15 years.
Read more...Date Posted February 15, 2013
Capital One Appoints Middle-Market Banking SVP
Capital One Bank said it has appointed Paul Darrigo as senior vice president of its Long Island and Queens Middle Market Banking team.
Read more...Date Posted February 15, 2013
GE Names John Flannery Head of Business Development
GE announced the appointment of John Flannery as SVP for corporate business development. Flannery will lead GE’s business development team, which is responsible for GE’s mergers, acquisitions and divestiture activities.
Read more...Date Posted February 11, 2013
Ryder System Appoints SVP of Supply Chain Solutions
Ryder System said Thomas F. Pettit has joined the Supply Chain Solutions business segment as SVP and general manager. For the past five years, he served as VP of Global Operations and Supply Chain for Pentair.
Read more...Date Posted February 11, 2013
ATEL Leasing Names Director of Syndications/Operations
ATEL Leasing said it has hired Tracey Rogers as director of Syndications and Operations for Kalakane Capital, an affiliate of ATEL Leasing.
Read more...Date Posted February 8, 2013
Penske Logistics Appoints Two Senior Executives
Penske Logistics said it promoted Joe Carlier to senior vice president, Global Sales, and added Jeffery A. Bullard as senior vice president of Operations in the company’s Central region.
Read more...Date Posted February 5, 2013
Bank of the West Names Evans to Lead Equipment Finance Unit
Bank of the West said that John Evans, senior vice president and manager of Vendor Finance, will succeed Jerry Newell as manager of the bank’s Equipment Finance Division effective March 1.
Read more...Date Posted February 1, 2013
Chicago Freight Car Leasing Names Portfolio Management VP
Chicago Freight Car Leasing said that Todd Kahn has accepted the position of vice president of Portfolio Management and Marketing. He most recently served with General Electric Railcar Services.
Read more...Date Posted February 1, 2013
GE Capital, Corporate Finance Adds Food & Beverage Analyst
GE Capital, Corporate Finance said it added Colin Guheen as a senior vice president on its food and beverage industry team, where he will underwrite and manage commercial finance for mid-sized companies across the U.S.
Read more...Date Posted January 31, 2013
Unchester Joins First American Equipment Finance
First American Equipment Finance said that John Unchester has joined its management team. Unchester was president of JP Morgan Leasing and Chase Equipment Leasing until 2005.
Read more...Date Posted January 31, 2013
TD Equipment Finance Names Director of Credit Management
TD Equipment Finance said it has named Kenneth G. Sullivan as senior vice president, director of Credit Management. Prior to joining TD Bank, he served as SVP & chief credit officer at Fifth Third Bank Equipment Finance.
Read more...Date Posted January 30, 2013
Diversified Capital Hires Sullivan as Senior Account Manager
Diversified Capital Credit said it has hired industry veteran Brian Sullivan as a senior account manager.
Read more...Date Posted January 28, 2013
Fleet Financing Names Director of Operations/Account Services
Fleet Financing Resources said it has named Jim Krug as director of Operations and Account Services. Most recently, Krug was VP and general manager for Edson Financial.
Read more...Date Posted January 28, 2013
TIP Capital Hires SVP, Business Development
TIP Capital said it hired Kevin Hall as senior vice president, Business Development. Hall is a former VP with Tyco International.
Read more...Date Posted January 23, 2013
TIP Capital Hires Central Region VP
TIP Capital said it has hired Jim Richardson as vice president–Central Region. Richardson previously served as VP, technology leasing specialist with Huntington National Bank/LeaseNet.
Read more...Date Posted January 18, 2013
Asset Control Services Names SVPs
Asset Control Services said it has added Martin Barrett as SVP, Southeastern Division, and Gary Clevenger as SVP, West Coast Division.
Read more...Date Posted January 18, 2013
Bibby Names Brown as Head of Trade Finance/Americas
Bibby Financial Services said it has recruited international trade expert Tony Brown as head of Trade Finance – Americas. Prior to joining Bibby, Brown served at Delta Trade Finance, First Capital, GMAC Commercial Finance and Manufacturers Hanover Trust.
Read more...Date Posted January 16, 2013
Frechette to Head Alta’s New Diversified Industries Unit
The Alta Group announced the development of a new vertical industry focus, Diversified Industries, to be headed by Paul W. Frechette, a senior managing director. Alta also appointed Valerie L. Gerard to head its Management Consulting Practice.
Read more...Date Posted January 15, 2013
EverBank Commercial Finance Expands Tech Finance Team
EverBank Commercial Finance said it named Jeff Schaner and Mark Sheehan as business development VPs in the company’s Technology Finance Group.
Read more...Date Posted January 15, 2013
CURE Leasing Names Petersen COO
AmeriQuest subsidiary, CURE Leasing & Maintenance, announced the appointment of Brett Petersen as its chief operating officer.
Read more...Date Posted January 15, 2013
LEAF Commercial Capital Welcomes Home American Hero
LEAF Commercial Capital said Cmdr. Michael Wojciechowicz, USN, has returned to his role as tax director at LEAF after a tour of duty in Iraq and a year recuperating at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital.
Read more...Date Posted January 15, 2013
Triumph Hires Kassebaum as National Alliance Manager
Bob Kassebaum joined the Asset Based Lending group at Triumph Commercial Finance as National Alliance manager. He previously worked at TAB Bank, Marquette, Merrill Lynch and Heller Financial.
Read more...Date Posted January 11, 2013
Blue Bridge Financial Names New Credit Manager
Blue Bridge Financial said it has hired of Melanie DelValle as credit manager. DelValle brings over ten years of experience in small business credit, including more than eight years at M&T Bank.
Read more...Date Posted January 10, 2013
BMO Harris EF Hires DiLallo to Lead Aviation Finance Unit
BMO Harris Equipment Finance said it has hired Joe DiLallo to lead its corporate aviation finance and leasing business. His most recent role was with Key Equipment Finance, where he was VP in the Corporate Aviation Finance unit.
Read more...Date Posted January 9, 2013
Washington Federal Names Equipment Finance Sales Managers
Washington Federal said it has named Rik Johnson as VP and regional sales manager and Todd Hatch as AVP and regional sales manager of the company’s equipment finance division.
Read more...Date Posted January 9, 2013
Constellation Financing Systems Names PNC EF Exec as VP
Constellation Financing Systems, a provider of software and services to the leasing and finance and commercial lending industries, said it named Susan Foster as VP of Sales and Marketing. She most recently served with PNC Equipment Finance as VP of Marketing.
Read more...Date Posted January 8, 2013
Nations EF Names VP Sales/Western Region
Nations Equipment Finance said that Michael Walker has joined the company as VP – Sales Western Region. Walker previously served as a regional VP at both Sony Financial Services and First American Equipment Finance and as VP Sales at AEL Financial.
Read more...Date Posted January 7, 2013
