Hitachi Capital America’s Donald Link, vice president and general manager of the company’s Medium and Small Ticket Finance Division, was appointed to the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation’s board of trustees.

Established in 1989, the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring thoughtful innovation and contributing to the betterment of the equipment leasing and finance industry. A few of the major foundation initiatives include a monthly confidence index, which provides a qualitative assessment of both the prevailing business conditions and expectations for the future; an annual Economic Outlook Report, which analyzes global and domestic trends impacting capital spending and economic growth in the coming year; and the State of the Industry Report, which provides a unique look at the trends in the equipment finance industry over the past year.

“I’m very much looking forward to serving alongside many of my highly-regarded peers on the board of trustees,” Link said. “As the industry continues to evolve, it is my hope that our board continues its important task of being the leading source for the most inclusive, forward-looking research and analyses in [the] equipment finance industry.”

Hitachi Capital America is an independent, diversified leasing and financial services company providing financing to commercial businesses and other Hitachi companies in the U.S.