Beacon Funding appointed Mark Belanger as vice president of Operations, effective June 1, 2016.

As vice president of Operations, Belanger is responsible for improving internal operations and automating them. He will work to balance the front and back-ends of the company. With sales processes continuing to improve, Belanger is tasked with ensuring the other operations keep up.

“Knowing Mark and considering his extensive leasing industry experience, I am confident that he will contribute to our culture of continuous process improvement,” said Sam Oliva, Beacon Funding CEO. “As vice president of Operations, Mark has the important task of identifying weaknesses in our organization and implementing solutions to make us a better company. I am excited to welcome Mark to the Beacon Team and look forward to a long and productive future together.”

Prior to joining Beacon Funding, Belanger worked at Deutsche Leasing USA for nearly nine years. As the managing director, he managed all operational functions for the German equipment leasing company.

For 26 years, Beacon Funding has provided equipment financing solutions to all types of organizations and businesses throughout a variety of industries in the U.S. and Canada.

“We have an incredible engine that is running as far as deal flow that is coming in,” Belanger said. “We don’t have to worry about that. The way we can grow and get better is by improving our internal processes and automating them. Beacon has been growing year after year, and I am excited to be a part of that.”