HeyJaredFireside Chat Series
Join me every Wednesday and get to know more about leaders in the equipment finance industry. Listeners will get a better understanding of the organizations that these individuals present, career paths, current state of equipment finance, along with some fun banter with all…
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Episode #294 Fireside Chat with Marci Slagle from First Financial Equipment Finance (opens the original)
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Marci Slagle, SVP of Originations at First Financial Equipment Finance, joins Jesse Johnson on this week’s Fireside Chats with Jesse. Marci has spent nearly three decades in equipment finance, building her career across independent finance companies, third-party originations, banking, portfolio growth, and now lessor solutions at First Financial Equipment Finance. In this episode, Marci and Jesse talk about her path into the industry, the transition from BankFinancial to First Financial, and why
Episode #293 Fireside Chat with Buddy Zarbock- Founder/CEO of Commercial Funding Partners (opens the original)
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Buddy Zarbock, Founder and CEO of Commercial Funding Partners, joins Jesse Johnson on this week’s Fireside Chats with Jesse. Buddy’s path into equipment finance is a little different than most. He grew up around his family’s plumbing supply business, helped grow and ultimately sell that company, and eventually found his way into equipment finance before founding Commercial Funding Partners in 2012. Buddy started CFP essentially on his own and didn’t pay himself for more than two years. Fourteen
Episode 292 Fireside Chat with Mitch Jurius, Founder of The Origination API (opens the original)
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Mitch Jurius, Founder and CEO of The Origination API, joins Jesse Johnson on this week’s Fireside Chats with Jesse. Mitch’s career has taken him from equipment finance operations at CIT and Direct Capital, to product development, to helping build Fullscope’s equipment finance platform, where he was involved in roughly 25 to 30 LOS implementations. Today, he is taking those experiences and building The Origination API, an equipment finance infrastructure platform designed to simplify how originat
Episode #291 Fireside Chat with Eric Miller, President and CEO of Ansley Park Capital (opens the original)
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Eric Miller, President and CEO of Ansley Park Capital, joins Jesse Johnson on this week’s Fireside Chats with Jesse. Eric has spent nearly 30 years in equipment finance, with stops at organizations including GE Capital and CIT before ultimately helping launch Ansley Park Capital in 2024. In this episode, Eric shares his career journey and the story behind Ansley Park’s rapid growth, including becoming profitable in its first year and building a platform expected to originate between $600 million
Episode # 290 Fireside Chat with Sahil Sharma VP of Business Development at Rosenthal Capital Group (opens the original)
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