The Certified Lease & Finance Professional Foundation announced there are 19 new equipment finance professionals who gained the CLFP designation in February and March.

Both exams were held after internal Academies for Lease & Finance Professionals (ALFP) hosted by Canon Financial Services and Amur Equipment Finance.

The newest CLFPs are:

• Stacy Allen, CLFP; Senior Sales Coordinator – Amur Equipment Finance
• Bryan Anderson, CLFP; National Account Manager – Amur Equipment Finance
• McKayla Anderson, CLFP; Senior Credit Analyst – Amur Equipment Finance
• Cathy Archer, CLFP; Accounting Supervisor – Amur Equipment Finance
• Eric Bicknase, CLFP; Senior Account Manager – Amur Equipment Finance
• Don Bryson, CLFP; Director of IT – Canon Financial Services
• Joe Carr, CLFP; IT Business Analyst – Canon Financial Services
• Jacob Conlon, CLFP; Senior Manager, Corporate IT – Canon Financial Services
• Mike Coon, CLFP; Vice President, Syndications – Amur Equipment Finance
• David Cramer, CLFP; IT Systems Administrator – Amur Equipment Finance
• Shauna Heckathorn, CLFP; Chief Financial Officer – Amur Equipment Finance
• Rob Hollenbeck, CLFP; IT Architect – Canon Financial Services
• Jacklynn Manning, CLFP; Vice President of Marketing – Amur Equipment Finance
• Daniel Marquette, CLFP; Senior Account Manager – Amur Equipment Finance
• Casey Mitchell, CLFP; Senior Vice President of Sales – Amur Equipment Finance
• Nate Pfeifer, CLFP; Manager, Credit – Amur Equipment Finance
• David Rabinovitz, CLFP; Vice President, Syndications – Amur Equipment Finance
• Brian Shinkle, CLFP; Senior IT Architect – Canon Financial Services
• Seth Yount, CLFP; Corporate Counsel – Amur Equipment Finance

Manning stated, “In an effort to achieve a level of expertise and proficiency beyond that of a “standard” marketer within the industry, I chose to pursue the CLFP designation. This provided me the opportunity to grow and enhance my skills of the leasing and finance industry and will allow me to use this knowledge as a tool to develop strategic and diverse programmatic omnichannel marketing while at Amur Equipment Finance.”

The CLFP designation is the only certification for the Equipment Finance Industry and there are currently 539 active Certified Lease & Finance Professionals and Associates in the United States, Canada and Australia.