To ensure that equipment leasing companies and brokers capitalize on the surge of new alternative financing products now available to their customers, leading finance company RapidAdvance has hired Jeff Schubert as Director of Strategic Partnerships.

Schubert, a former owner of American Bank Leasing and Bulldog Asset Management, “has the in-depth industry knowledge and experience to create funding solutions that equipment leasing brokers and lessors need to meet the needs of their clients and thereby close more deals,” explained RapidAdvance Chief Revenue Officer Mark Cerminaro.

RapidAdvance offers a myriad of small business funding products, ranging from loans and lines of credit to merchant cash advances.  “When an equipment leasing company can offer its customers seamless access to working capital,” Schubert said, “it is able to close more deals.  I chose RapidAdvance because it has more products to offer, and it is seriously committed to establishing productive relationships with equipment leasing companies.”

Prior to joining RapidAdvance, Schubert held positions with such companies as Engs Commercial Finance, Element Financial Corp, CitiCapital, American Equipment Leasing and Lease Plan USA.

“We certainly don’t think there is anyone better suited for this position,” Cerminaro said, adding that “Jeff’s experience provides RapidAdvance with unique insight into better serving the needs of the equipment leasing community; creating a best in class experience for our partners and their customers.”

“I look forward to introducing RapidAdvance to the equipment leasing community,” Schubert said.  “When it comes to finding the best financial product and the most customized funding solution, no company can do it better, faster, easier, or more creatively than we can.”