ELFA 57th Annual Convention 2018 | ELFA- Equipment Leasing and Finance and Association | 14 October 2018 | JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, 5350 E Marriott Dr, Phoenix, AZ 85054, USA

If you’re in the equipment finance industry, you can’t afford to miss the 2018 ELFA Annual Convention. There’s nowhere else you can connect with so many industry leaders and discover new ideas to help your business Evolve, Emerge and Excel.

Who Attends?
Only a veritable Who's Who of equipment leasing & finance company executives. These are the movers and shakers: more than a thousand CEOs, COOs, Presidents and VPs from the most important equipment leasing & finance companies in America and across the world.

2018 Speakers

KEYNOTES:

Linda Bernardi
Technologist, Innovation Provocateur & Former Ibm Cio

Dr. Larry J. Sabato
Election Analyst and Best-selling Author, Founder and Director of the U.va. Center for Politics

Dr. Mark Zandi
Chief Economist and Co-founder of Moody’s Analytics

SPEAKERS:

Ralph Petta
President and Chief Executive Officer, Equipment Leasing and Finance Association

Matthew Bain
Learning Consultant, De Lage Landen Financial Services, Inc.

Nathan Gibbons
Chief Operating Officer, Innovation Finance

Kara Miyasato
Senior Manager, Marketing, Stryker Flex Financial

Adam Warner
President, Key Equipment Finance

Shawn Halladay
Managing Director, The Alta Group

Andy Mesches
Director, The Alta Group

Paul Bent
Senior Managing Director, The Alta Group

Jennifer Martin
Vice President Originations, Key Equipment Finance

Cameron Krueger
Managing Director, Accenture

Arthur Anhalt
Advisory Vice President, CWB National Leasing

Steve Taplin
Chief Digital Officer, Alfa Financial Software

Charles Wendel
President, FIC Advisors, Inc.

Chris Enborn
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman, Allegiant Partners

Kathleen Canum
Vice President, Canon Financial Services, Inc.

Jacob Fahl
Opportunity Development Leader, Hitachi Capital America Corp.

Thomas Ware
Senior Vice President, Analytics & Product Development, PayNet, Inc.

Deborah Reuben
President, Reuben Creative, LLC

Chris Gigliotti
Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Keith B. Letourneau
Partner, Blank Rome LLP

Lisa Nowak
Senior Product Manager, International Decision Systems

Anu Sachdeva
Senior Vice President, Genpact

Sidney Scheinberg
Bankruptcy/Creditors′ Rights Section, Godwin Bowman & Martinez PC, Chair

Elizabeth Fella
Partner, Quarles & Brady LLP

Kenneth Peters
Partner, Dressler & Peters LLC

David T. Schaeffer, CLFP
Chief Executive Officer, ELFA Chairman, Mintaka Financial

Larry Sabato
Election Analyst and Author; University of Virginia Professor of Politics; Founder and Head of the U.Va. Center for Politics

Kelli Nienaber
Executive Director, Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation

Jeff Elliott
Foundation Chair, Huntington Equipment Finance

Jeff Jensen
Senior Director, Keybridge LLC

Elizabeth Rust
Senior Analyst, Keybridge Research

Alan Sikora
Chief Executive Officer, First American Equipment Finance, an RBC/City National Company

Aylin Cankardes
President, Rockwell Financial Group

Kris Snow
President, Cisco Systems Capital Corporation

John Bober
Advisor, IXL Lease Advisory

Kristin Jones
Senior Product Manager, Leased Assets, Bloomberg Tax

Shannon Detling
Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Chris Gigliotti
Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Ray Ellingsen
Vice President, Corcentric Capital Equipment Solutions

Patrick Gaskins
Senior Vice President - Sales & Operations, Corcentric Capital Equipment Solutions

Stephen T. Whelan
Partner, Blank Rome LLP

Anu Sachdeva
Senior Vice President, Genpact

Patricia Voorhees
Director, The Alta Group LLC

Ann Flynn
President & Founder, Technology Finance Partners

Michael J. Nick
President & Founder, ROI4Sales, Inc., a division of Technology Finance Partners

Drew Wright
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Technology Finance Partners

Bill Choi
Vice President, Research & Industry Services, Equipment Leasing and Finance Association

Shannon Loomis
PayNet, Inc.

Joe Graham
Managing Director, FIS

Andrew Blacklock
Senior Director, Strategy and Business Operations, Cisco Systems Capital Corporation

Julie Benson
Vice President Membership Marketing, Equipment Leasing and Finance Association

Nate Gibbons, CLFP
Chief Executive Officer, Innovation Finance USA LLC

Alexandra Dressman
Operations Process Manager & Assistant Vice President, Huntington Equipment Finance

Martin Klotzman, MBA, CLFP
Marketing and Business Operations Manager, Ivory Consulting Corporation

Victoria Mora
Assistant Vice President, Credit and Syndication, GSG Financial

Garland Brooks
Business Development Advisor, Dell Financial Services

Amy Vogt
Vice President Communications and Marketing, Equipment Leasing and Finance Association

Brian Eschmann
President, Trans Lease, Inc.

Charles Wendel
President, Financial Institutions Consulting, Inc.

Paul Stilp
Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Equipment Leasing and Finance Association

Spencer X. Smith
Keynote Speaker, Instructor, Author

Ed Rosen
Director of Governance, Equipment Leasing and Finance Association

Jeff Jensen
Senior Director, Keybridge LLC

John Evans
Business Development Manager, Verdant Commercial Capital

Jeff Jensen
Senior Director, Keybridge LLC

Kirk Phillips
President & Chief Executive Officer, Wintrust Commercial Finance

Tim Quinlan
Senior Economist, Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Elizabeth Rust
Senior Analyst, Keybridge Research

Scott Thacker
Chief Executive Officer, Ivory Consulting Corporation

Randa Barsoum
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Andrew Prior
Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Brian Holland, CPA, CTP, CGMA
President & Chief Financial Officer, Fleet Advantage

Amy Holland, VP
Sales Manager, TCF Equipment Finance, a division of TCF National Bank

Marjorie Krumholz
Partner, Thompson Coburn LLP

Amanda Partak
Senior Motor Vehicle Specialist, Wolters Kluwer’s Lien Solutions

Edward Gross
Shareholder, Vedder Price

2018 Sponsors

• Assurant
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• BMO
• Boston Financial & Equity Corporation
• Bryant Park Capital
• Cefi
• DnFinance
• DLL Financial Solutions Partners
• Fifth Third Bank
• Fis
• FleetEvaluator
• Fleet Financing Resources
• GE Capital Healthcare Equipment Finance
• Genpact
• GreatAmerican Insurance Group
• International Decision Systems
• Key Equipment Finance
• Leaf
• Lti Technology Solutions
• Equipment Finance
• Mintaka Financial
• Odessa
• Orion First
• Paynet
• Financial Services Group
• Signature Financial
• Summit Funding Group
• TBF Financial
• SCF Stonebriar
• TIAA Bank