No Exhibit Booths ~ No Breakout Sessions ~ No Appointments Required ~ Attendees sit comfortably in the General Session and evaluate fast-paced alternating Exhibitor PowerPoint presentations.

Originators (Brokers & Syndicators) describe their markets and provide valuable access to new business origination channels.

Funding Sources describe their buy/sell investment strategies, removing the guess work about who you should be working with on a direct basis.

Technology Resources & Service Providers introduce resources enhancing equipment lease origination, funding, distribution and administrative networks.

The Networking Suite facilitates private access to Exhibitor representatives and their promotional materials.

Speaker - Rafael Castillo-Triana | Principal | The Alta Group LLC

Since 2003, Latin America and the Caribbean economies have been experiencing continuous and scalating economic growth, fueling also an unprecedented equipment leasing and financing boom. Equipment vendors have put Latin America in the top of their agendas and customer financing needs lead to multiple and handsome opportunities for well established lessors.

Rafael Castillo-Triana, the Alta Group Principal for Latin America, will share with the attendees relevant information, experience and discussion of opportunities and risk management for doing leasing and equipment financing in Latin America and the Caribbean. The topics to be addressed include mapping opportunities in each relevant market, different alternatives to do business in the region, different strategic approaches and case studies of success and failures.

Speaker - Susan Carol | CEO | Susan Carol Associates

Your company brand and your reputation are mission-critical assets. Do they get the attention they deserve? Public relations (PR) is about protecting and illuminating the brand, and protecting reputation. It communicates--through stories--your value proposition, and it facilitates internal and external two-way communications. If integrated at top management levels, it will help prevent crisis communications and support business development.

New Internet communication tools (Podcasting, RSS Feeds, Video Streaming, as examples) enable innovative ways to reach micro- targeted audiences quickly and in multiple ways. They often enable dynamic interaction and participation. But they also increase reputation risk. Today there are citizen journalists capturing and disseminating stories, while hungry 24-hour media channels seek to engage us in ever more sensational features. Advertising revenue is a problem within traditional media outlets; they are changing their own formats and services. This eliminates some PR opportunities, but creates new ones your professional agent should explore.

This presentation will discuss how to integrate online and off-line communications, take advantage of PR opportunities specific to the equipment finance industry, and avoid damage to your brand or reputation. Susan Carol, a professionally accredited public relations counselor with more than 2 decades of experience, will specifically address how equipment leasing and finance organizations can maximize their Web presence, take full advantage of special events, and use measurable communications strategy. She founded Susan Carol Associates Public Relations in 1989, following employment at MCI and before that the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association.

Speaker - Gerald F. Parrotto | Publisher/Executive Editor | Monitor

With 30+ years in the equipment leasing and finance industry, Jerry Parrotto, Executive Editor and Publisher of the Monitor brings his unique perspective to attendees of this year's Lessors Networking Showcase. His career path has taken him from banking to leasing, where he served in management capacities at Industrial Valley Bank, Citicorp, Seafirst Leasing and MetLife. In 1988, he joined Molloy Associates as an executive recruiter and publisher and, in 1998, became the sole owner of the enterprise.

Jerry will speak to the evolution of the Monitor 100, from its inception and launch in 1992 to the present day as well as the overall mission of the Monitor and its website, www.monitordaily.com. Through the eyes of a publisher, he will provide attendees with his view of the dynamics that have shaped today's equipment leasing industry.

At most industry events only the featured speakers and registered exhibitors are featured. We recognize there are many more equipment leasing resources sitting in the audience and invite each attendee to the microphone to give a brief (about two minutes) oral introduction of their companies, products and services.

With a room full of funding sources in the audience, Attendees are also invited to use this opportunity to pitch transactions and portfolios. Remember to bring a supply of printed Terms Sheets describing your funding opportunities for distribution to qualified funding sources.

This has got to be the most productive forum you'll ever attend.