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CFA Officially Announces 2016 Award Recipients
The Commercial Finance Association is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural 40 Under 40 Awards. CFA offers its deepest gratitude to all the nominees and their managers. We would also like to recognize the hard work and dedication of the judges: Andrea Petro of Wells Fargo Capital Finance, David Kurzweil of Greenberg Traurig, Jeff Goldrich of North Mill Capital and Bob Trojan of the Commercial Finance Association.
Additionally, Andrea served as Chair of the Awards Program and David served as Vice Chair. The CFA 40 Under 40 Awards would not have been possible without their leadership and their commitment to the young professionals of our industry.
CFA 40 UNDER 40 2016 WINNERS
BUSINESS CONSULTING/TURNAROUND
Joseph Nappi, Phoenix Management Services
Paul Share, Conway MacKenzie
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Eric Bader. Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.
Andrew Burgess, Marquette Business Credit
Mark Cerminaro, Rapid Financial Services, LLC
Robert Chimenti, Garrison Investment Group
Travis Hunt, Citizens Commercial Banking
Alexa Kolodny, Merchant Factors Corp
Robert E. Meyers, II, Republic Business Credit
Jennifer Palmer, Gerber Finance Inc.
Mark Seigel, Veritas Financial Partners
FIELD EXAMINATION
Michael Bohley, Wells Fargo Capital Finance
LEGAL SERVICES
James Cretella, Otterbourg P.C.
Shadi Enos, Buchalter Nemer
Sarah Gilbert, Hahn & Hessen LLP
Jordan Klein, K&L Gates
Maria McGuire, Goldberg Kohn
Bethani R. Oppenheimer, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mark D. Silva, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Heather Sonnenberg, Blank Rome LLP
LIQUIDATOR/APPRAISER/AUCTIONEER
Matt Miller, Gordon Brothers Group
Navin Nagrani, Hilco Global
LOAN SYNDICATIONS
Kavian Boots, US Bank
Joye Lynn, Wells Fargo Capital Finance
OPERATIONS
Miin Chen, Siena Lending Group LLC
Susanna Siskind, PNC Business Credit
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Julie Acuff, Wells Fargo Capital Finance
Will Bence, MB Business Capital
Jennifer Borg, North Mill Capital LLC
Jason Hoefler, BMO Harris Bank
Christine Hutchinson, Bank of America
Justin Mills, People’s United Business Capital
Hossein Nouri, Regions Business Capital
Alex Smith, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
UNDERWRITING
Samantha Alexander, Wells Fargo Capital Finance
Polly Hackett, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Anthony Masci, CIT Bank N.A.
John N. McDevitt, BNP Paribas
Sam O’ Donnell, PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
Kimberly Winters, Triumph Business Capital
Please be sure to visit the Awards site www.cfa.com/40Under40 for details on the awards celebration on September 22.
We hope to see you there!