The American Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (AACFB) announced the election of two new members to its Board of Directors and the election of a new Vice President, Roderick Knoll, CLFP, with Marathon Commercial Capital, LLC. Kortney Murray with Coastal Kapital, LLC was elected as a Director at Large and Leslie Brown, CLFP with Mak Global Corporation will serve as the new Secretary/Treasurer. They will begin their service in their new positions in May of 2022, following the 2022 AACFB Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 
Current AACFB President, Carrie Radloff, announced, “I am excited to welcome these newest members of our Board of Directors. They will both bring valuable perspectives, ideas, and energy to the Board, which will benefit all AACFB members. I also want to thank AACFB Past President, Cindy Downs for her dedication and service to the AACFB as she completes her term on the Board. Cindy has been an outstanding contributor to this association!”

Please join us in congratulating the 2022-2023 AACFB Board of Directors:

Officers:

• President - Laura Estrada, Preferred Capital Funding, Inc.
• President-Elect - Teresa Thacker, Brahma Lending and Leasing
• Vice President - Roderick Knoll, CLFP, Marathon Commercial Capital
• Secretary/Treasurer - Leslie Brown, CLFP, Mak Global Corporation 
• Past President - Carrie Radloff, CLFP, American Financial Partners

Directors-at-Large:

• Michael Hong, Taycor Financial
• Kortney Murray, Coastal Kapital, LLC
• Kalah Sprabeary, CLFP, HUB Funding Solutions

More about the newest board members:

Leslie Brown, CLFP, is owner of Mak Global Corporation and is an 18-year Equipment Finance Professional. She served as an elected member of the CLFP Foundation Board for two years and is also an active member of the AACFB, having served on the Education Committee, and is a staff writer for Commercial Break, the official publication of the AACFB.

Dedicated to active participation in her community, Leslie sits on the Board of Directors as Treasurer for Elm Creek Water Supply Corporation. She is an avid entrepreneur with a penchant for improving lives in the community. She owns a mortgage lending company that provides home ownership opportunities to low income families and a portfolio of long and short-term rental real estate properties throughout Texas and Colorado. She is a published writer and is a guest author for Monitor Magazine.

Kortney B. Murray is the founder of Coastal Kapital LLC, which celebrated its 10-year anniversary in December 2021. Kortney started her leasing career in 2003 in Carlsbad, CA at Innovative Lease. She later moved to Boston to teach a leasing course where she wrote and taught a training manual on how to run a successful business in equipment financing as a broker. Kortney graduated from Northwood University in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and an associate degree in Advertising. Throughout college she coached cheerleading at Dow High School for the JV teams, taking them up to a 1st and 2nd place team for competitive cheer.

Kortney has become a big part of the Sarasota, Florida community through local charity work, Chamber of Commerce programs, and participation in helping various local community projects.