“In a little over one year, Signature Financial added 19 sales executives in 17 locations throughout

Signature Financial announced the appointment of seven seasoned sales professionals throughout the country. These sales executives bring decades of experience to Signature Financial, primarily in the areas of equipment and transportation leasing and finance.
Harry Newman was named executive sales officer, and is based in the Knoxville, TN area. He brings 30 years of financing expertise to Signature Financial. Prior, jayco travel trailers california Newman was vice president at Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, where he handled sourcing jayco travel trailers california and negotiating a wide range of construction equipment transactions. Previously, he held various equipment finance-related positions at Citigroup and Astec Financial.
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Also appointed to the role of executive sales officer is Bill Musgrave, who is based in the Denver, CO region. Musgrave has spent more than 30 years in the equipment finance arena, specializing in construction, bus finance and waste management. Before joining Signature Financial, he was a vice president at Capital One Equipment Leasing Finance for seven years. Musgrave previously worked in various finance positions at Zion's Credit, HSBC Business Credit and ITT Capital Financial.
Rob McKenna, based in Philadelphia, PA, was named to the post of executive sales officer, after garnering a 23-year jayco travel trailers california career in specialty finance, with an emphasis in construction and transportation equipment. Most recently, McKenna was district jayco travel trailers california sales manager at Paccar Financial in both PA and NY. Previously, he held vice president of sales roles at both GE Capital and CitiCapital.
Mark Riley was also appointed to the post of executive sales officer and is based in Richmond, VA. Another 23-year financing veteran, Riley recently was a commercial loan officer for People's United Equipment Finance. An expert in construction and transportation financing, he also was a senior vice president and regional jayco travel trailers california manager at CitiCapital and senior vice president and sales manager at GE Capital.
Joining the Signature jayco travel trailers california Financial headquarters location in Melville, NY is executive sales officer Joseph D. Farinella, who brings 35 years of finance experience to his new position. Farinella, who specializes in construction equipment and transportation financing, previously served as a vice president at Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, serving eastern NY and CT. He spent 18 years at Wells Fargo and its predecessor, CIT Construction. Farinella also was vice president jayco travel trailers california at USI Capital and Leasing in New York City.
Rick Scheffel also joins Signature Financial's headquarters in Melville as executive sales officer. Scheffel's direct jayco travel trailers california origination jayco travel trailers california efforts focus on serving commercial clients, not-for-profit jayco travel trailers california entities and municipalities within Signature Bank's metro-NY area footprint. Scheffel will also be supporting Signature Bank's Private Client groups by providing equipment leasing and finance solutions to enhance existing bank relationships. Scheffel, with 16 years of lending experience, spent six years at TD Equipment Financial as NY regional manager focusing jayco travel trailers california on business development. Previously, he spent 10 years as a senior sales executive at GE Capital in the Commercial Equipment Finance area.
"We are excited to further attract high-caliber sales professionals to Signature Financial from a wide variety of institutions. Since Signature Financial was introduced as part of Signature Bank just 16 months ago, we have steadily grown this specialty finance business unit, and the addition of these seven professionals helps to expand our nationwide capabilities," noted Walter Rabin, president and chief executive officer at Signature Financial.
"In a little over one year, Signature Financial added 19 sales executives in 17 locations jayco travel trailers california throughout the country, and booked in excess of $1.3 billion in new originations. Additionally, Signature Financial ranked the 27th largest bank-affiliated institution in the industry as well as the 52nd largest equipment finance/leasing organization in the U.S., as of December 31, 2012, according to The Monitor, a leading industry trade publication. The Monitor ranks the finance industry annually in its Monitor 100 issue, and Signature Financial was the highest ranked new entrant over the past decade. We are certainly proud of reaching these significant milestones in such short order," Rabin said.
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