Mike Rogers and Kevin Lombardo have joined the capital markets team at Citizens Asset Finance, Inc.

Rogers is an experienced financial services / capital markets professional and a 28-year veteran of GE Capital supporting the Capital Markets Group and GE’s Equipment Finance Business.  He has specific expertise in vendor, transportation, fleet, material handling and construction.  In his new role with Citizens, Rogers will support the capital market activities of the Citizens Asset Finance business and the commercial team, including coordinating with the sales teams to originate and syndicate equipment leases and loans.

Lombardo is a veteran of the equipment finance industry with 25 years of service with GE Capital in all aspects of financing and leasing, including asset management, direct sales and syndications.  In his new role at Citizens, he will work with the sales teams to originate and syndicate equipment and aircraft transactions as well as handling the third-party originated sales activity on the buy desk.

“We are delighted to have such experienced professionals join our team,” said Marc Paulhus, head of Asset Finance at Citizens. “They will be invaluable to us as we work to achieve our capital markets goals in 2017 and beyond.”

Rogers and Lombardo will be based in Towson, MD.

About Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $149.5 billion in assets as of December 31, 2016. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations and institutions. In Consumer Banking, Citizens helps its retail customers “bank better” with mobile and online banking, a 24/7 customer contact center and the convenience of approximately 3,200 ATMs and approximately 1,200 Citizens Bank branches in 11 states in the New England, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions. Citizens also provides wealth management, mortgage lending, auto lending, student lending and commercial banking services in select markets nationwide. In Commercial Banking, Citizens offers corporate, institutional and not-for-profit clients a full range of wholesale banking products and services including lending and deposits, capital markets, treasury services, foreign exchange and interest hedging, leasing and asset finance, specialty finance and trade finance.

Citizens operates through its subsidiaries Citizens Bank, N.A., and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania as Citizens Bank, Citizens Commercial Banking and Citizens One. Additional information about Citizens and its full line of products and services can be found at www.citizensbank.com.