Eric Hanson is Senior Managing Director and Co-Head – Financial Institutions Group, Macquarie Capital.

Ian Koplin is Editor for Monitor, ABFJournal, DealMaker and Commercial Factor magazines.

Ian Robertson is a principal with Invigors Asset Management, part of the Alta Group.

James (Jim) Jackson is Co-CEO of The Alta Group and leader of its Merger and Acquisition Advisory Practice. Alta’s M&A practice provides buy-side and sell-side advisory services, locates debt and equity financing, provides valuations and performs other related services to the equipment finance industry. Jackson has more than 30 years’ experience in the equipment leasing and finance industry and has served as a senior financial executive at MicroFinancial/ TimePayment, Deutsche Financial Services, AT&T Capital Corporation – Leasing Services and Signal Capital Corporation. He formerly served as President of the National Equipment Finance Association and can be reached at [email protected].

Owner of Mak Global Corporation and an 18-year equipment finance professional, Leslie Brown, CLFP, has served as an elected member of the CLFP Foundation board for two years. She is also an active member of the AACFB and has served as a staff writer for the official publication of the AACFB.

Nick Feasey is a senior consultant in the As a Service/PPU Practice at Invigors, which is part of The Alta Group.

Ray Ellingsen is Senior Vice President, Syndications & Operation at Corcentric. He has more than 25 years of experience in the syndication, equipment lease finance and commercial banking industry. At Corcentric, he is responsible for growing and maintaining national funding source relationships with complementary valued-added financial institutions and equipment finance organizations, as well as developing customized, customer-focused, life-cycle fleet management financing programs.

Rita E. Garwood is editor in chief of Monitor.

Steve Williams is the managing director for CF Software Solutions, which is a provider of desktop applications to commercial lending and leasing companies and is a registered Microsoft developer. He can be reached at [email protected].

Tim Pearce is a senior consultant in the As a Service/PPU Practice at Invigors, which is part of The Alta Group.

Unmesh Pai is a senior director of product strategy and engineering at Oracle Financial Services. Unmesh brings more than 24 years of experience in software engineering to his role at Oracle, with a primary focus on the BFSI sector throughout his career. Through his work, Unmesh has worked closely with banks, NBFCs and asset finance companies.