The Alta Group welcomes back Jonathan L. Fales, a global equipment leasing and finance management expert who most recently served as vice president of strategic business development for Key Equipment Finance, CEO John C. Deane announced today.
“We are delighted to have Jon rejoin Alta. With our significant growth over the last several years, Jon will focus on clients in our captive/vendor consulting practice as well as coordinating our international client relationships, especially in Asia Pacific and Latin America,” Deane added.
While at KEF, Fales developed and implemented a new way for KEF to evaluate and enter new vendor program verticals in a way that aligned volume opportunities with KEF’s credit appetite and process capabilities. “KEF successfully entered the industrial equipment vendor program vertical in 2015, and hired an excellent, experienced team to build it, as a result of this new process,” Fales said.
Before working at KEF, Fales provided consulting services for 15 years as part of The Alta Group, helping equipment finance companies with vendor and captive programs, market entry, competitive benchmarking and international leasing and finance development.
He is also known for his knowledge of the China leasing market; in fact, Fales will speak at, and chair, the China Leasing Summit in Beijing June 14-17 for the ninth consecutive year.
Earlier in his career he worked for IBM and IBM Global Financing.