PERSONNEL NEWS
WELLS FARGO SAID THAT MARK LANSPA joined the firm as an executive vice president
in the Hospitality Finance Group (HFG). Lanspa will open a new office for the group
in New York City, where he will support current and potential customers in the
New York Metro area. He will report to Christopher Jordan, head of the Hospitality
Finance Group at Wells Fargo.
Equipment Finance after
serving for more than 16
years with government
contracting firms in the
metro D.C. area. He most
recently worked as chief
administrative officer at
Qivliq. He also served
as a senior contracts
manager at both TKC
Communications and
Qwest Gov’t Services.
was the global leasing
account manager with
Avaya Financial Services,
a unit of CIT, where he
managed cross-border
strategic accounts and
transact pan-European
agreements.
Harley-Davidson Financial,
where he led the
project that established
Eaglemark Bank.
US Capital Expands
Business Lending Team
US Capital Partners
promoted Ish Spencer
to SVP. It also hired
Muhammad Howard
as VP and BDO and
Anthony Medovoy as VP
of Corporate Finance.
Spencer is responsible for
preliminary commercial
loan underwriting at the
San Francisco office.
Howard focuses on
loan structuring and
underwriting and heads
the Denver office.
Medovoy is responsible for
the firm’s underwriting and
placement process at the
firm’s Los Angeles office.
Shaughnessy Joins
TAB Bank as VP, BDO
TAB Bank added Steven
M. Shaughnessy to the
Business Development
team as VP and BDO
based in Seattle, WA and
serving the Northwest
U.S. and western Canada.
Prior to TAB Bank, he
was responsible for the
creation and operation of
both a private asset-based
lending company and a
business bank offering
asset-based products.
LeasePlan USA Hires West
Coast Regional Sales VP
LeasePlan USA appointed
Robert Eckert to West
Coast regional sales VP,
national accounts. Most
recently, Eckert spent
nine years as an area VP
sales and regional sales
manager with Wright
Express. He began his
sales career with Hertz
Corporation’s Car and
Truck Leasing Division.
Union Leasing Hires
Marketing Coordinator
Union Leasing hired
Patrick Cronin as
marketing coordinator.
He fills the marketing
role previously held by
Kelly Brannon, who was
promoted to the position
of director of corporate
communications &
marketing with Union
Leasing parent company,
Sasser Family Holdings.
LEAF Hires Inside
Sales Director
LEAF Commercial Capital
hired Sheryl Gill as
director of Inside Sales
responsible for assisting
LEAF’s equipment dealer
and reseller partners.
She is in LEAF’s dealer
sales and service center
in Moberly, MO. Gill held
management positions
with GE Capital, Fifth Gear
and, most recently, with
The Outsource Group.
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NewStar Hires Brown to
Lead Southeast Region
NewStar Business Credit,
a division of NewStar
Financial, hired Stephen
Brown as SVP and will
open a new office in
Atlanta, GA. Brown will
expand NewStar Business
Credit’s marketing and
origination efforts in the
Southeastern region.
Prior to joining NewStar,
he was an SVP with
Presidential Financial.
Previously, he was with
Textron Financial, BMO
(formerly Harris Bank) and
GE both in origination and
management capacities.
OptumHealth Adds
Two Execs to
Healthcare Lending
OptumHealth added John
Korte and Kevin Hannan
to its healthcare finance
business. Korte is VP of
business development for
OptumHealth’s healthcare
finance business. He
was previously VP of
healthcare sales at TCF
Commercial Equipment
Finance. Hannan is VP
of product development.
He spent eight years
with GE in its business
development, finance and
sales units.
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IDS Hires Ex-CI T Account
Mgr to Boost EMEA Sales
International Decision
Systems (IDS) appointed
Philip Benké as senior
account executive,
Strategic Accounts
EMEA based out of the
company’s European head
office in Basingstoke,
England. Previously, Benké
Ascentium Appoints
New Vendor Sales Reps
Ascentium Capital
appointed four business
development professionals
to its vendor sales
team. They, Jason Wise,
Cassandra Rentfrow, Chris
Cooper and Christopher
O’Neil, will provide
financing solutions vendor
partners and serve
the financing needs of
businesses across the
U.S. that are looking to
acquire assets.
Merchants Leasing
Promotes Villano to CEO
Merchants Leasing
promoted Glen Villano
from COO to CEO. Villano
previously served at
McGraw Edison, Citicorp
and Transamerica Finance.
He spent ten years with
Macquarie Appoints
Co-Head of CAF Group
Macquarie appointed
Ben Brazil as co-head
of the Corporate and
Asset Finance Group
(CAF), its lending and
leasing businesses. He
joins current CAF head
Garry Farrell, who led the
businesses since 2000.
