Bob Baker, Wildwood Financial

Steve Crane, Bank of the West

Phil Dushay, Global Leasing

Mike Graneri, Graneri and Associates

Ken Greene, Attorney

Bruce Kropschot, Kropschot Financial Services

Charlie Lester, LPI Financial

Bob Rodi, LeaseNow

Bob Teichman, Teichman Financial Training

Andrew Thorn, Thalman Finance

Rob Yohe, Yohe and Associates

Ginny Young, Brava Capital

 

We are very pleased to announce that Steve Geller will be joining the Leasing

News Advisory Board. It was a unanimous decision.

 

Kit Menkin, editor/publisher

 

Here is our vote in chronological order:

 

I have only met Steve Geller a couple of times, but he seems to be a very

pleasant sort. I have only heard good things about him. Everything I know

says he would be a valuable addition to the board.

Charlie Lester <clester@lpifinancial.com>

 

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Steve Geller would be an excellent addition to the Advisory Board. He is

a CLP and was (and I believe continues to be) very active in EAEL. I don't

think he was ever active in UAEL, but he attended a lot of our events. I

think he is on either the Advisory Board or the Board of Directors of the

CLP Foundation.

 

He is experienced, honorable and willing to look at both sides of a

question.

The newsletter would benefit from his point of view.

 

By the way, I have spoken to him several times since he left Orix and he

seems to be quite enthusiastic about his new consulting venture.

 

 

Bob Teichman, CLP

Teichman Financial Training

3030 Bridgeway

Sausalito, CA 94965

Tel: 415-331-6445

Fax:415-331-6451

e-mail: BoTei@aol.com

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 Steve would be a great addition and of course as he is pursuing new

opportunities this might be the thing for him. I met Steve about 7 years ago

at an ELA meeting in Chicago. It was kind of funny. I had recently had neck

surgery and told some people I was meeting for the first time to look for

the guy in the neck brace. As it turned out Steve had just had neck surgery and

was wearing a brace also. I wonder how many people came up to him asking if

he was Rob Yohe. What a coincident.

Rob Yohe

 MLOST@aol.com

 

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I like Steve.

 Andrew Thorn <athorn@nowlease.com>

 

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I agree that Steve Geller would make a fine addition to the advisory board.

Regards to all.

Ken Greene

KGreene100@aol.com

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I think Geller would be a great addition to the advisory board.

Ginny

Ginny Young <GinnyYoung@bravacapital.com>

 

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Kit,

I have known Steve for years. He would be an excellent addition.

                        Bob Baker CLP

 

 

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Steve Geller would be an excellent addition to the Advisory Board. I

have served with Steve on the EAEL Board, and he has been a tireless worker for

that organization.He is highly respected by the leasing companies he has

provided funding to, and he will provide valuable input to Leasing News from

the important New York metropolitan area.

BKropschot@aol.com

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I have known Steve Geller for several years, mainly through our mutual

envolvement with EAEL and UAEL.   I spoke with Steve recently in Atlanta at

the EAEL/NAELB gathering and he explained to me the new venture that he is

involved in now that he is no longer with ORIX.  I feel that he is a man of

integrity and would be a great addition to the advisory board.

 

Steve Crane CLP

Bank of the Wes

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That's fine by me. I think he would make a great addition to the

board.

 Mike Graneri <Granite63@aol.com>

 

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 I love Steve Geller.  I have done a lot of business with him

and he is a great guy.  I spoke to him and have traded e-mails with him

since he left.  He is a very level headed guy, he's been around as long as

any of us and he knows everybody, especially the bad ones that he had to

watch out for at ORIX on the east coast.  I say yes.

 

BR

 

( Bob Rodi )

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I have known Steve for quite a few years and I think he would be a great

addition. He has my vote.

Phil Dushay

 

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   About Steve Geller

 

 My roots in the leasing business start from my days as a bank examiner,

for what is now called the OCC, in the early 70's. Leasing was a very

oddball and limited activity in National Banks in those days.  I was

assigned to the examination of a number of "leasing" departments and the

activity seemed intriguing.  I left to work a short time for a local

community bank in the late 70's.  We needed to generate commercial loan

volume because in a suburban community without industry loan demand was

low.  The president of the bank said that he knew how we could generate loan

volume. Equipment leasing!  I left to work for two leasing companies

knocking on doors which I discovered not to be my forte, or maybe the timing

and rates were not in my favor.  In 1972 I went to work for Tilden as a

credit manager. A year later George Berenz was hired and then we hired Tony

Fantauzzi and then Tony Perettine and Walt Rabin.  After 7 years I left

Tilden for an opportunity to work with Bob Salge just as ORIX Corporation

purchased the old First Interstate Credit Alliance.  After almost 12 years

(19 counting Tilden) of never "turning off the tap" to lessors and brokers,

all very successful years, ORIX (and Tilden) decided to go in a different

direction.  When one door closes, another one opens.  I have proverbially

hit the ground running in my first two weeks as an entrepreneur.  I am

placing broker/lessor deals with the many funding sources I know throughout

the industry, earning a small fee on the transaction.  I have been a member

of the Board of Directors of the EAEL, currently a Vice President on the

Executive Board, and am a founding trustee on the CLP Foundation.  I have in

years past been active on UAEL committees, Exhibitor Committee Chairman of

several fall conferences and two terms on the Standards Committee, hearing

many interesting cases.  I have one son in the dot.com world, another in his

third year of college and wife who administers a reading program for a local

school district (who is already dreading being home with me all summer).  So

far so good for my business, this is a very exciting time for me.  I have

incorporated as Leasing Solutions LLC and would be happy to speak to any

industry colleagues about anything, except maybe the NY?NJ Hitmen of the XFL.

My phone number, after 2/26 will be 845-362-6106. before 845-354-1270.  My

fax number is 845-354-2803.  A little long winded. Edit as you see fit.  I

am most happy to serve on your advisory board as a voice from the east

coast. - Steve

 

 

We are very proud to have Steve on board.