Summit Funding Group announced the addition of three industry veterans to its sales team: Rob McKenna, Jamie Halas and Judi Faust.
McKenna has joined the team as a Vice President & Senior Account Manager. In this role, McKenna is responsible for developing and expanding the Mid-Atlantic region including NJ, PA, DE and MD markets and has extensive experience working with a wide variety of industries, including aviation, communications, construction corporate aircraft, distribution, energy, food & beverage, manufacturing, marine, material handling, mining, packaging and waste & recycling. McKenna brings over 30 years of experience in equipment finance including time with CIT, Citi Capital and GE Capital. Most recently, McKenna spent 11 years with Signature Financial as a Vice President, Executive Sales Officer.
McKenna graduated from Pennsylvania State University in PA with a Degree in Business Management.
Halas has joined Summit as a Business Development Officer. In this role, Halas is responsible for originating equipment loans and leases leveraging his existing relationships and developing new relationships. He has extensive experience working with a wide variety of companies over his 25-year career in equipment financing.
Halas spent 14 years in Structured Finance with GE Capital and the last eight years with Signature Financials’ Structured Finance business.
Halas is based out of the Bethel, CT office.
Faust has joined the Summit team as a Regional Sales Manager covering TX, OK, AR, LA, KS, and MS Regions. She has extensive background in the Material Handling and Construction and will be specializing in working within these industries.
She started her career as a Credit Analyst at Associates Commercial Corp in the 1990s, and worked as a Regional Sales Manager for NACCO – Yale Financial Services early 2000s. In 2006, she went to work for DFS covering Construction. However, Material Handling called her back and, in 2011, she helped build the Material Handling division for Bank of the West. Most recently, she worked for Crown Equipment Corp., as its Corporate Credit Trainer.
Faust is based out of Dallas, TX.