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Valerie Gerard

Senior managing director of The Alta Group

Valerie Gerard, a senior managing director with The Alta Group, leads the Strategy & Competitive Alignment practice. Leveraging her extensive career and areas of expertise, her research and consulting work for Alta clients has included a variety of market entry, capital markets access, rating agency advisory, investment community messaging, and market survey projects.


Posts by Valerie Gerard

The Generative AI Future for Equipment Finance: It’s Time to Think About How to Make it Happen

While AI in equipment finance is still in its infancy, the technology has been used for some time in areas such as managed services. As AI matures, its greatest promise lies in generative AI applications where deep-learning models create rich,... read more

What’s Happening Now to Shape Our Future? Alta Advisors Share Their Collective Insights

Ten years from now, funding will flow to the most efficient, most flexible and most resilient enterprises that are continuously innovating and adding value to customer solutions. It’s already happening — we see a growing appreciation for consumption-based financing solutions,... read more

The Equipment Leasing Company of the Future

The medium- to long-term challenges and opportunities of the post-COVID-19 world are now coming into view. The virus did not remake business models but accelerated the adoption of market trends already in place, including digital transformation, managed services and environmental,... read more

Raising the Bar: While Others Ride the Blockchain Wave, Equipment Finance is Still Wading Offshore

With all the hype about blockchain revolutionizing the way business gets done globally, have you ever stopped to think about whether the equipment leasing and finance industry is ready to dive into this potentially disruptive technology? There’s ample evidence of... read more

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