Edwards will manage business bank sales team providing equipment financing solutions
SUPERIOR, Colo. – June 2, 2014 – Key Equipment Finance, one of the nation’s largest bank-held equipment finance companies and an affiliate of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY), has named Scott Edwards senior vice president and business bank sales leader. In this role, Edwards will manage the business bank sales team as it provides equipment financing solutions to manufacturers and businesses.
“It’s great to have Scott back at Key Equipment Finance, where he was a top performer as a direct originator in our business bank,” said Peter K. Bullen, senior vice president – bank channel for Key Equipment Finance. “He brings more than 25 years experience in commercial banking, vendor leasing and sales management, and I look forward to working with him as we take our business bank team to the next level of success.”
Previously, Edwards was a vice president/commercial lender for Key Bank and a direct originator for Key Equipment Finance. Before that, he worked for 18 years in a variety of commercial banking, vendor leasing sales and sales management positions with Colonial Pacific Leasing, NationsCredit, Textron Financial and Banner Bank.
Edwards is a graduate of Oregon State University and the Pacific Coast Banking School.
Key Equipment Finance offers equipment financing and business leasing solutions to a range of business types and industries. Learn more at http://www.kefonline.com.
About Key Equipment Finance
Key Equipment Finance has been in the equipment finance business for 41 years and is one of the largest bank-based equipment finance providers in the U.S. The company provides tailored equipment lease and finance solutions for commercial clients and government entities. Through its manufacturer and vendor alliances unit, equipment finance programs are developed for manufacturers, distributors and resellers.
Key Equipment Finance’s specialty finance group includes a lease capital markets team to support corporations looking to optimize risk and revenue, and a lender finance team, which provides structured facilities to various sectors of the specialty finance market. Headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, Key Equipment Finance manages $9.1 billion in assets and originates $4.3 billion of equipment financing annually. For more information, visit http://www.keyequipmentfinance.com.
About KeyCorp
KeyCorp was organized more than 160 years ago and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, Key has assets of approximately $91 billion. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses under the name of KeyBank National Association. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com/. KeyBank is Member FDIC.