Mike Rogers and Kevin Lombardo joined the capital markets team at Citizens Asset Finance.

Rogers is a 28-year veteran of GE Capital supporting the Capital Markets group and GE’s Equipment Finance business. He has specific expertise in vendor, transportation, fleet, material handling and construction. In his new role with Citizens, Rogers will support the capital market activities of the Citizens Asset Finance business and the commercial team, including coordinating with the sales teams to originate and syndicate equipment leases and loans.

Lombardo is a veteran of the equipment finance industry with 25 years of service with GE Capital in all aspects of financing and leasing, including asset management, direct sales and syndications. In his new role at Citizens, he will work with the sales teams to originate and syndicate equipment and aircraft transactions as well as handling the third-party originated sales activity on the buy desk.

“We are delighted to have such experienced professionals join our team,” said Marc Paulhus, head of Asset Finance at Citizens. “They will be invaluable to us as we work to achieve our capital markets goals in 2017 and beyond.”