Andrew K. Alper is a vice president and shareholder with the law firm of Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato in Los Angeles. The firm specializes in representation of all lenders and secured creditors with a large concentration of clients in the equipment leasing and real and personal property secured transactions areas. Alper’s practice includes litigation, documentation, insolvency, transactional matters and all matters affecting lenders and lessors except for tax related matters.

Bill Pifani is Director of Credit Management at TD Bank Equipment Finance.

Brian Schonfeld is Manager of Business Intelligence & Analytics at Pawnee Leasing.

Cortland Brady is the Founder and CEO of Aspen Field Services. Cortland has taken the company from conception in April of 2017 to an international inspection company. Aspen provides collateral inspections, asset verifications, and valuations on assets throughout the entirety of North America and Europe. He can be reached at cort@aspenfieldservices.com / 801-335-7454.

Dexter Van Dango is a pen name for a real person who is a senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in the equipment leasing industry. A self-described portly, middle-aged, graying, balding leasing guy in the twilight of a mediocre career, Van Dango will provide occasional insight from the front lines via Monitor.

Joe Sebik is a CPA who has worked in the equipment finance industry since 1980. Currently employed by Siemens Financial Services, he has worked for PwC, IBM Credit, Citicorp Global Equipment Finance, Chase Equipment Leasing and JPMorgan’s Tax-Oriented Investments group. His roles have spanned all aspects of equipment finance, from auditing to financial reporting to transaction structuring and marketing to tax reporting. He has been on the ELFA’s Accounting Committee for more than 13 years and has been the chairman of the ELFA’s Federal Tax Committee since 2013. He has written extensively about the industry including numerous technical portfolios for Bloomberg/BNA on both lease accounting and the economics of equipment finance.

Kristine A. Snow is president of Cisco Systems Capital Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., where she leads the company’s global captive finance business.

Mike Hamilton is Senior Vice President of Financial Services at AmeriQuest Transportation Services

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Rita E. Garwood is Editor in Chief of Monitor.

Rob Hoysgaard is Vice President of Sales for the Northeast Region, Capital Equipment Solutions, for Corcentric. He is responsible for analyzing customer fleets in order to optimize their total cost of ownership. Hoysgaard has extensive knowledge of asset acquisition, equipment finance, asset services, and remarketing.

Susan Carol is chief executive officer of Susan Carol Creative, a full-service multi-media communications firm that specializes in equipment leasing and finance, technology, and healthcare markets. Founded in 1989, the agency was incorporated as Susan Carol Associates Public Relations, Inc. in the state of Virginia.