John J. Catalano joined CFBank as president of CFBank Equipment Finance. Catalano will lead the equipment finance and leasing line of business, reporting directly to the CEO and working with all regional commercial banking teams. He has more than 30 years of industry experience and has operated at a C-level with CBI Leasing (fka The Vaughn Group) and Bush Truck Leasing, with earlier equipment finance experience at KeyBank. Catalano also has experience managing and consulting for various financial service businesses and also served for 10 years in the U.S. Army and the Army National Guard.

Based in Cincinnati, Catalano will be charged initially with building a middle-market and small-ticket equipment finance operation serving the equipment financing needs of commercial businesses regionally and providing custom and flexible solutions for the equipment financing needs of existing customers.

“We are excited to welcome John Catalano to our CFBank commercial team,” Timothy O’Dell, president and CEO of CFBank, said. “John’s extensive background and experience with successfully building and growing equipment financing businesses will allow us to both better serve the equipment financing needs of our CFBank customers, along with opening the doors for us to begin relationships with new commercial and business customers.”

CFBank is an Ohio-based boutique commercial bank and national residential mortgage lender.