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 Bosco is the principal of Leasing 101, a lease consulting company. Bill has over 37 years of experience in the leasing industry. His areas of expertise are accounting, tax, financial analysis, structuring, pricing and training. Bosco has been on the ELFA accounting committee since 1988 and was chairman for 10 years. He is a frequent author and speaker on leasing topics. He has been selected to the FASB/IASB Lease Project working group. He can be reached at [email protected], www.leasing-101.com or 914-522-3233.

Frank Bussone is vice president of technology and data analytics for Corcentric Fleet Solutions. He has spent more than 25 years providing business analytics and business intelligence to the transportation and real estate industries. For the past nine years, he has helped Corcentric customers find lower cost solutions for their truck fleets by working through the big data broadcasted from trucks. Bussone is a certified transportation professional and received a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Florida Atlantic University. He has also received a data science with SQL and tableau certificate from Cornell University and a certificate of achievement in six sigma green belt from Villanova University.

Gary Kempinski is general manager of Navistar Capital at BMO Transportation Finance.

John Crum is the national sales manager of Wells Fargo Equipment Finance’s commercial vehicle group. He has more than 30 years of equipment finance and leasing experience with leadership positions in credit, portfolio and sales management in both the United States and Canada. He is responsible for managing all loan and lease originations in the commercial vehicle market including trucks, trailers, buses, specialty vehicles and zero emission vehicles. Crum can be reached at [email protected].

Kimberly Siegel, CPA, is a principal at ECS Financial Services, a CPA firm located in Northbrook, IL. Siegel has worked in public accounting for more than 30 years. She oversees the sales and use tax department where she manages multi-state sales tax compliance, conducts sales tax research and represents clients in sales tax audits, all specializing in the equipment leasing industry. She represents clients in business and personal income tax audits and Department of Labor audits as well. In addition, she is experienced in accounting, financial statement preparation and analysis, and multi-state income tax compliance.

Marielle Mondon was assistant editor of Monitor from February 2014 to August 2016.

Nick Lionello has been a Business Development Consultant at Beacon Funding, an equipment financing company specializing in the commercial truck and decorated apparel industry, for 11 years. He continually works to help businesses grow through financing and wishes to share the knowledge he has accumulated over the years with others in the industry.

Phil Neuffer is senior editor of ABF Journal.

Rita E. Garwood is editor in chief of Monitor.

Sam Nickerson is assistant editor of Monitor and ABF Journal.

Steve Latin-Kasper is the market data and research director for the National Truck Equipment Association. He joined the NTEA in 1999 and provides research and analysis on markets and economic indicators relating to the work truck and truck equipment industry.

Tom Toton, vice president of Sales, Capital Equipment Solutions, brings nearly 40 years of extensive experience in the transportation industry to his role at Corcentric. He works with companies to determine a flexible, data-driven solution that is based on their operational and financial needs in order to optimize every asset.