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OF THE NEARLY 190 STORIES posted on monitordaily in October 2011, our
metrics indicated that these were the top ten headlines that interested our
Web readers. (Headlines appear in chronological order.)
Element Financial Names Equipment Finance Veteran SVP
October 5, 2011
Co-Conspirator Pleads Guilty in $135MM Equipment Lease Scheme
October 7, 2011
Wells Fargo, BDO Seidman Settle Le-Nature’s Suits for $130MM
October 12, 2011
SunTrust Announces Key Hire in Equipment Finance Unit
October 13, 2011
Mike Coon Joins TAB Bank as VP, Equipment Leasing Division
October 14, 2011
TCF Financial Promotes Equipment Finance EVP/CFO
October 19, 2011
Key Equipment Finance Names NY Middle-Market Lease Manager
October 25, 2011
Two Firms Acquire GE Capital Trailer Fleet
October 25, 2011
Laird Boulden Named President of CapitalSource
October 28, 2011
Fifth Third Announces Senior Management Changes
October 28, 2011
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Gunville Joins Balboa’s
Point-of-Use Water Division
Balboa Capital added Lisa
Gunville to its vendor
services team as regional
manager of the point-
of-use water division.
She joined Balboa after
a successful tenure
at another financing
company, where she was
the top sales performer
for five consecutive years
and helped grow its point-
of-use water division.
Southeast U.S. Prior to
that, Camerlengo was
the senior member of the
highest producing sales
team at GE Commercial
Finance for five
consecutive years.
Joseph Brodsky is an
SBA lending professional
based in Las Vegas and
was a BDO responsible
for originating SBA loans
at Quadrant Financial.
Brian Evans is an SBA
lending originator. Based
in Chicago, Evans was an
SBA wholesale manager
at Small Business Capital.
Key EF Names Gutierrez
VP, Energy Finance
Key Equipment Finance
named Luis A. Gutierrez
as VP, energy finance
to identify, develop,
structure and close energy
equipment finance/
leasing transactions,
initially focused on
distributed photovoltaic
solar opportunities.
Previously, he was SVP
of structured finance for
Energy Conversion Devices;
director of project finance
at Naturener USA; VP
of investment banking
at Silver Pacific Advisors
and director at XRoads
Solutions Group.
Citibank Appoints
Regional Comm’l Banking
Presidents
Citibank appointed Robert
W. Koar and Shawn
McGowen as president
of its U.S. Business &
Commercial Banking
Groups in its eastern
and western regions,
respectively. Prior to
joining Citibank in 2006,
Koar spent over 25 years
at Wachovia and its
predecessor First Fidelity,
managing its Commercial
and Corporate Banking
Businesses in New
Jersey. McGowen,
prior to Citibank, was
division sales manager
at Wells Fargo leading
the Mid-Atlantic Treasury
Management sales team,
as well as the East Coast
Inside Sales team.
Key EF Promotes Wood to
VP Global Program Mgmt
Key Equipment Finance
promoted Michael A. Wood
to VP, global program
management. Wood will
work with Key EF’s largest
global technology program
partners. He joined Key
EF in 2000 as a regional
business manager,
Northeast, National East
and Central regions, and
was promoted in 2007
to business unit manager
and senior team leader
for syndications, aircraft,
vendor and energy.
Merchants Capital Names
Zehr VP/Sales
Merchants Capital hired
Eric Zehr as VP of sales
to direct originations
and vendor finance
relationships mostly
targeted in the Midwest.
Zehr, who has more than
17 years in the lease
financing industry, worked
with Farm Credit Leasing
and GE Capital before
joining Merchants Capital.
Asset Control Services
Hires Willet VP/Southwest
Gary Willet joined Asset
Control Services as
VP, Southwest region.
Previously, he was senior
director of equipment
management for Boeing
Capital and equipment
manager for First
Interstate Leasing and
Textron Financial.
Fifth Third Announces
Senior Management
Changes
Fifth Third elevated Mary
Tuuk, Bruce Lee and Paul
Reynolds to the positions
of market president Fifth
Third Bank (Western
Michigan), chief credit
officer and chief risk
officer, respectively.
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Diversified Hires GE Comm’l
Finance Alum as VP
Diversified Capital
Credit hired Samantha
Camerlengo as VP of
business development.
As a former VP of NY Life
Investment Management,
she had oversight of a
$2 billion loan portfolio.
Concurrently, she directed
the company’s marketing
efforts targeting growth
opportunities in the
CapitalSource Expands
Small Business Lending
CapitalSource expanded
its Small Business
Lending group with the
addition of four new BDOs
responsible for sourcing
SBA loans. Rhonda Marin
is a veteran of commercial
real estate lending based
in Chicago who comes to
CapitalSource from Fifth
Third Bank where she was
an SBA manager. Jerry
Murphy has background
as a credit analyst, BDO,
underwriter and was a
consultant at Fidelity
Commercial Funding.
Key EF Names Metro NY
Lease Manager
Key Equipment Finance
named Shinji S. Muto
as middle-market lease
manager for the metro
New York area. He will
focus on direct sales to
companies in the New
York metropolitan region.
Prior to Key EF, Muto
was senior director of
business development for
The Receivables Exchange.
Previously, he was VP
for GE Comm’l Finance
and VP at Citigroup – Citi
Bankers Leasing. He
has also held various
sales and management
positions with Citigroup
– Citi Comm’l Equipment
Finance, First Union
and Citibank.
