See Who’s Up for Election by the ELFA Membership

The ELFA Nominating Committee has named the following individuals to stand for election by the ELFA membership. If elected, all nominees will begin their term of service at the conclusion of the ELFA Annual Convention, Oct. 27-29 in Washington, D.C. Each ELFA regular member company may cast one vote for each nominee. On Aug. 16, voting materials and instructions will be emailed to each member company’s key contact, who may then vote via confidential electronic ballot on the ELFA website. The voting will conclude Oct. 9 at 5 p.m. ET.

Kris Snow

Chair-Elect
Kris Snow is President of Cisco Systems Capital Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., where she leads the company’s global captive finance business and certified remanufactured equipment business. She joined Cisco from CIT Group, Inc. in 2009. She is past Chair of ELFA’s Captive and Vendor Finance BCSC. She serves on the Gonzaga University Board of Trustees and is board member emeritus for St. Mary’s College School of Economics and Business Administration. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Gonzaga University and a Master of Business Administration from St. Mary’s College of California. Snow was honored by the Computer Reseller News 2019 Women of the Channel list and received the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Women of Influence award and the YWCA Tribute to Women Award for the Silicon Valley.

Bob Neagle

Vice Chair
Bob Neagle is President and General Manager of the Merchant Finance Division of Ascentium Capital LLC, where he is responsible for Ascentium Capital’s entry into the payments industry and the general direction of the business and its P&L. He began his career with TriContinental Leasing, later Bell Atlantic Capital, where he was SVP and COO of the commercial equipment finance group. He later joined AT&T Capital where he was SVP of Marketing for the Business Finance unit. He joined First Data Corporation in 2004 where he led the growth of First Data Global Leasing. He served two terms as a Trustee of the Equipment Leasing & Financing Foundation and was a member of the Foundation Research Committee and the Editorial Review board of the Journal of Equipment Leasing and Finance. He has a Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago.

Deborah Baker

Director
Deb Baker is the Head of Worldwide Leasing and Financing with HP, Inc. and is responsible for driving contractual business growth by establishing an optimized, profitable multi-vendor leasing and financing go-to-market solution. She is a finance veteran with over 20 years’ experience supporting captive and vendor financing. Prior to joining HP, she held a variety of positions with Cisco Systems Capital Corporation, HP Financial Services and CIT. She is an active member of the ELFA Women’s Council, currently serving as the Council’s incoming Chair. In addition, she is on the Editorial Board of The Monitor publication. She holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ.

Maureen Carr

Director
Maureen Carr is Managing Director of Pacific Western Bank’s Corporate Asset Finance business. Carr is responsible for all aspects of the Corporate Asset Finance Group, including strategic direction, business development, credit, asset management and operations. She was a senior member of the nine-person group that joined CapitalSource in 2010 from Tygris Asset Finance where she was Senior Vice President and served as Director of Capital Markets. Prior to her tenure with Tygris, she held various positions at RBS Asset Finance, including Director of Capital Markets and Credit Manager. Earlier in her career, Carr worked at Heller Financial in the Commercial Equipment Finance Division as a Senior Credit Analyst. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Marquette University.

Nathan Gibbons

Director
Nate Gibbons is the Chief Operating Officer at Innovation Finance. His focus is on operational design that brings dramatic improvements to the customer experience. He began his leasing career with First American Equipment Finance, where he served as Vice President in the Operations Department before being asked to help develop and manage the company’s learning and professional development strategy. He has served on various ELFA committees, including the Emerging Talent Advisory Council (ETAC)—most recently as Chair, the Financial Institutions BCSC (as an ETAC liaison), the Small Ticket BCSC, the Academic Outreach Committee and the LeasePAC Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Certified Lease & Finance Professional Foundation. He is an avid drummer and volunteers as a mentor to teens and young adults at his local church.

Alan Mogol

Director
Alan Mogol is a shareholder with the law firm of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, and concentrates his practice on the negotiation, documentation and syndication of equipment finance transactions. He has more than 45 years’ experience handling leases and loans involving over-the-road vehicles, corporate aircraft, railroad rolling stock and general equipment. These transactions include tax-motivated leases, TRAC and split-TRAC leases of vehicles, synthetic and other leases for security, and loans supported by equipment collateral. He has assisted more than a dozen national equipment financing companies in developing standard financing and syndication documentation, including the implementation of titling trusts for motor vehicles to facilitate syndication. He is a former member of ELFA’s Legal Committee and is a frequent lecturer and author in the equipment finance area.

Thomas Rutherford

Director
Tom Rutherford is President of Crestmark Equipment Finance, the equipment finance and leasing division of Crestmark, a division of MetaBank. He joined Crestmark in 2014 through the acquisition of TIP Capital, a leasing company where he served as COO, and co-founded in 1999. He has 30+ years of experience in sales, marketing and operations, with over 25 years of experience in technology financing. Prior to TIP Capital, he was the Director of Syndications for AT&T Capital Systems Leasing. Rutherford is a long-time member of ELFA and has served on the Independent Middle Market BCSC. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of California–San Diego and an MBA from Wayne State University. He also has held Series 7 and Series 63 Securities licenses.