AirFinance, a global aerospace and equipment financing business, added H. Suha Kocabal to its business development team. Formerly with TD Bank’s Export Credit & Agency Finance group, Kocabal has deep experience with export credit origination globally, with emphasis on U.S. EXIM, UKEF and Canada’s EDC. Kocabal’s experience will help AirFinance continue to expand beyond business jets and helicopters to support the financing of export credit purchases.

At TD from 2002 to 2018, Kocabal was instrumental in the bank’s export credit origination globally, with emphasis on US EXIM, UKEF and Canada’s EDC. Kocabal focused primarily on the aerospace, transportation, power, medical and manufacturing sectors. In these areas of expertise, he covered both U.S. manufacturers as well as large corporate names in certain international markets, namely Brazil, Canada, Eastern Europe, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Middle East, and Turkey. Kocabal was also part of the team that developed TD’s US EXIM’s Qualified Advisor initiative.

By joining AirFinance, Kocabal adds to the company’s global presence and aerospace and equipment financing experience. While AirFinance has already been expanding beyond its traditional aviation base to include aerospace products in general aviation, this hire also marks AirFinance’s continued growth into non-aviation related equipment finance.

AirFinance now works with export credit agencies across the globe, including Canada’s EDC, Switzerland’s SERV, Italy’s SACE, Poland’s KUKE, Israel’s ASHRA the UK’s UKEF in additional to its original partnership with the U.S. Export Import Bank.

“We could not be more excited about Suha joining the AirFinance team. His deep contacts internationally and experience living and working in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, including 30+ years of international business experience, will accelerate AirFinance’s expansion into these markets,” said AirFinance Managing Partner Kirsten Bartok Touw.

“Suha comes to AirFinance with 19 years of export credit experience in key global markets. His hard work and track record were key to TD becoming an EXIM Qualified Advisor and now he joins AirFinance’s successful track record of funding Qualified Advisor transactions. Suha’s experience will help AirFinance continue to expand beyond business jets and helicopters to support the financing of our customer’s export credit purchases,” said Tom Low, AirFinance managing partner.