ENGS Commercial Finance announced that Christopher Kelly has joined the company as the Director of Sales of its newly launched Construction Division. In this role, Mr. Kelly will be responsible to develop ENGS into a nationally recognized market leader in Construction equipment finance.

Mr. Kelly brings over 30 years’ equipment leasing and finance experience with leadership roles at Bank of the West, DLL and ECN Capital (formerly Element Financial), where he was instrumental in helping create construction platforms and growing them into market leaders. Most recently, Mr. Kelly was the Senior Vice President for ECN Capital.

“I have known Chris for over 10 years and his proven track record, winning attitude and personality will be welcomed by all of us in the ENGS family,” commented Ken Wuethrich, Managing Director of ENGS Commercial Finance, Industrial Equipment Division. “Chris and his team are focused on partnering with Manufacturers and Dealers that sell large and compact construction equipment, cranes, aerial lift, trenching and road building equipment.”

James Freund, Executive Vice President of ENGS Commercial Finance, said, “We are very excited to have Chris join our team to lead our new Construction vertical. Adding this vertical is an important part of our strategy of positioning ENGS as a market leading diversified commercial finance company, and we feel Chris is an excellent leader and has the experience to lead our new Construction vertical.”