Katie Emmel serves as Chief Operating Officer at IDS where she is responsible for overall product strategy and global professional services. With over 30 years of equipment and asset finance domain experience, Ms. Emmel has led the build out and implementation of industry leading asset finance technology being leveraged by some of the world’s largest financial institutions. She has led the company’s push into the cloud with the 2018 release of IDScloud. In addition to her responsibilities at IDS, Ms. Emmel gives back to the equipment and asset finance community through her volunteer work with the Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation.