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Secured Lender, The,  Nov/Dec 2005  

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Allied Financial Corportion has made two additions to its staff: Deborah Fossick, vice president in lending and new business, and Levar Gholson, account executive in the operations department. Ms. Fossick is a CPA and has been involved in asset-based lending for the past six years and Mr. Gholson recently graduated from Georgia State University, summa cum laude, where he majored in finance.

Bank of America Business Capital: Neeraj Gupta has joined as vice president and senior business development officer for the MidAtlantic Region. Located in the New York office, Mr. Gupta is responsible for originating and structuring assetbased financial solutions for mid-size to large companies and financial intermediaries. L.M. Junior Del Brocco has also joined as senior vice president of business development for the Central Region, including Canada. Located in the Toronto, Canada office, Mr. Del Brocco is responsible for developing, structuring and documenting asset-based financial solutions for mid-size to large companies and financial intermediaries in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

Bridge Healthcare Finance renewed its sponsorship for the 15th annual National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industries (NIC) Conference. The conference was held September 28-30 in Washington, D.C. As part of its sponsorship, Bridge provided complimentary drop-off car service to conference attendees. This program sponsorship was an NIC first. Since its creation, the NIC has served as a valuable resource to lenders, investors, developers/operators, and others interested in meeting the housing and healthcare needs of America's seniors.

Business Alliance Capital Corp. has expanded its New York City office. Steven Stone, senior vice president, has recently joined as a business development officer and, in addition to Robert Figurski, will be responsible for obtaining new business throughout the New York Metropolitan area.

Capital TempFunds: James S. Rothman has been named president.

Chase Business Credit announced several additions to its asset-based loan origination team. Based in Minneapolis, Mike Mahoney is responsible for new business in Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas. Matt Modlish will be part of the Northeast region and is based in Boston. Don Parker joined the Houston office in the Southwest region.

The Commercial Finance Group (CFG) has appointed Tony Dixon as manager of the Eastern Sales division. Mr. Dixon will be working from the Dallas office at 11551 Forest Central Drive, Suite 228, Dallas, TX 75243; Tel.: 214-503-1460. Other recent appointments include Toad Bowden in the Phoenix office at 2001 West Camelback Road, Suite 100, Phoenix, AZ 85015; Tel: 602-266-1144 and Aaron Berg in the Portland office at 4747 Southwest Kelly Avenue, Portland, OR 97201 Tel.: 503-223-3101.

First Business Capital Corp. has promoted Chad Rhodes to account executive officer. Mr. Rhodes is responsible for managing existing client relationships and has two years of banking experience as a field examiner with FBCC. Mark Buchert was promoted to assistant vice president-account executive and Erick Hefty to assistant vice president-operations manager. Mr. Buchert is promoted from the position of account executive-officer and is responsible for managing existing client relationships within FBCC.

GE Commercial Finance, Commercial & Industrial Finance (CIF) appointed Dennis Krause as industry leader for the food, beverage and agriculture marketplaces. The announcement is part of an ongoing initiative to align CIF's go-to-market resources with the fastest growing financing opportunities, industry-by-industry.

GE Commercial Finance Global Media & Communications: Thomas W. Regan has been appointed managing director, origination. He will be responsible for generating and overseeing client relationships in the large-cap media sector. Based in New York City, Mr. Regan will report to Peter J. Foley, managing director and head of Origination, Global Media & Communications. The company also appointed Jeffrey A. Feinberg senior vice president, origination. He will be responsible for originating capital transactions in the middle-market telecommunications sector, focusing on the wireless, wireline, cable and towers areas. Mr. Feinberg will be based in New York City and will report to Mr. Foley.

GE Commercial Finance Technology Lending has named John Kinnaman managing director. In his new position, he will oversee transactions for companies within the technology sector, including clean energy, communications infrastructure, electronics, hardware, information technology, internet services, semiconductor and software. GE Commercial Finance Technology Lending also appointed Paul Lee to the position of vice president, origination. He will be responsible for originating and maintaining client relationships within the technology sector, and will report to Mr. Kinnaman.

GMAC CF has announced the opening of its new Commercial Services Division office in Greensboro, NC. The new office address is: 300 North Greene St., Suite 2195, Greensboro, NC, 27401. Steven Smith has joined the company's Commercial Services Division (CSD) as senior business development officer in Greensboro, NC. He will be responsible for business development throughout the Southeast United States. John Nooney also joined the CSD as senior vice president and portfolio manager and will oversee business development throughout the Southeast United States and manage day-to-day office operations in both the Greensboro and Atlanta regional offices. Ernie White has joined the CSD as senior business development officer and will be responsible for business development throughout the Southeast United States. Amina Kirtman has been named vice president, group senior risk manager for the commercial air, marine and business aviation groups within the company's Equipment Finance Division (EFD), Atlanta, GA. In her new role, she will be responsible for building a high performance team to service, support and help grow these business groups.