Growth in a Market Like This Takes a Team Like No Other
Capture More New Equipment and Software Opportunities With LEAF
As a leader in a dynamic and competitive industry, you know change isn’t the enemy. It’s the opportunity.
What does your business need from a finance partner to fully leverage today's opportunities and position for strength as the equipment and software marketplace continues to evolve?
One thing’s certain, especially these days: it’s going to take people who get beyond the go-to strategies of the past and get busy developing leasing, finance, and capital solutions for what’s next. People with extensive industry knowledge and unique team culture are a potent combination of nimble, creative, and relentless.
Industry-Targeted Solutions to Power Growth and Drive Results
Backed by the strength of People’s United Bank, the experts at LEAF have gone beyond leading finance programs to create innovative solutions that solve real problems, support continuing business evolution, and help equipment and software dealers position for growth in the marketplace.
Firmly rooted in delivering flexible finance solutions for a wide variety of industries, LEAF’s executive leadership team draws on a wealth of experience creating programs, structures, and competitive differentiators that have driven business across decades of market shifts.
Michelle, Sandy, and Michael along with dozens of other leaders across our national footprint know the needs of businesses like yours. They’re committed to supporting your continuing success. And they’re continually working to deliver the kind of creative, transformational solutions you won’t find anywhere else.
Here are just a few of the capabilities LEAF can offer your business:
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Crit DeMent Chairman & CEO
Michelle Speranza
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer
Miles Herman President & COO
John Beard
SVP, Risk
Sandy Graydus
SVP, Corporate Operations
Paul Tyczkowski
SVP, Financial Planning & Analysis
Nick Capparelli
Managing Director
Hover or click over each person to learn more about our team.
Unique Solutions
Every business is different, and every solution we create is unique. But they all begin with the same simple question:
What can we do to help move the needle?
Advanced finance platform technology to improve the efficiency and mobility of the sales process.
A faster, easier path to freeing businesses from entrenched relationships with underperforming lease and finance providers.
Profit programs to help increase cash flow while simultaneously accelerating the sales cycle.
Creative, targeted plans that leverage LEAF’s finance flexibility to stimulate sales in branch and independent channels.
Profit programs to help increase cash flow while simultaneously accelerating the sales cycle.
Profit Programs
Creative Solutions
Personalization
Business Partnership
Finance Platform
That’s just the beginning of what we can offer your business. Whatever it takes to move the needle, we’re here to help you solve real problems with a comprehensive suite of resources and breakthrough thinking from a team of MVP leaders.
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IT Integration
Strategic Resources
LEAF’s advanced FinanceNOW platform streamlines the finance process, as well as supports stronger sales and customer experience, with secure instant access to pricing, credit decisions, documents, customer data, and more on any connected device.
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Strategic Resources
IT Integration
Marketing Support
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Learn More About the FinanceNOW Platform
Whether your marketing plans could benefit from professionally crafted and
customized print/digital sales assets, emails, social media, or an entire multichannel campaign to support a sophisticated strategy, you will have complementary
access to the services of one of the industry’s most advanced and capable communications departments.
LEAF’s industry-leading IT team and advanced technology power a more efficient finance program, a better customer experience, and improved decision making by tightly integrating finance program data with common accounting, operations, and CRM solutions.
LEAF is here to support businesses in every economic climate and provide a wide variety of resources to assist in developing successful strategies for strengthening sales in a pandemic, understanding market trends, and much more.
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People like the ones at LEAF.
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Better Results Start With
Better Thinking
At LEAF, we don’t think outside the box. We were never in the box in the first place. When a company like yours works with us, we go deep – and we get creative. We take the time to really understand your business before getting to work on a solution that doesn’t just check the boxes but also redefines what’s possible.
Solutions like these:
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Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.
The Financing Fail That Became a Win
What do you do with a request for super-detailed billing for 27 locations? At LEAF, we smiled and took care of it — and then went the extra mile.
Splitting the Bill to Seal the Deal
When a six-figure deal on the edge of closing required an urgent modification and customization of the agreement, LEAF was able to get out-of-the-box...
Urgent Customer Need?
Problem Solved
Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.
The Financing Fail That Became a Win
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What do you do with a request for super-detailed billing for 27 locations? At LEAF, we smiled and took care of it — and then went the extra mile.
Splitting the Bill to Seal the Deal
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When a six-figure deal on the edge of closing required an urgent modification and customization of the agreement, LEAF was able to get out-of-the-box...
Urgent Customer Need?
Problem Solved
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Mike McKie
SVP, IT Program Mangement
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Ron Chesnick
Your Account Champion
A Team Dedicated to Helping You Reach Your Goals
LEAF Account Champions are much more than just financing representatives. We are experts in your industry, and our mission is to help you succeed. We're here to handle all the details of your finance transactions and work with you to build unique finance solutions, promote your business, and close bigger, more profitable sales. And we are always just a phone call away. It's time for people like the ones at LEAF.
As your dedicated LEAF Account Champion, I'm here to help you drive results with flexible financing options, plus sales resources, marketing support, and much more.
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Growing in this market takes people who think differently. People who step up to become strategic partners, not just service providers. People with ideas on moving the needle and resources to make it happen.
It's time for people like the ones at LEAF.
Jaymi Sander
Sales Manager
Thanks for learning more about what makes us a different kind of finance partner. Here at LEAF, we think the future belongs to those who aren’t afraid to push past yesterday’s answers and develop creative new solutions for what’s next.
We hope this short introduction to our team and capabilities has helped you get to know us a little better. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your goals and share more about how we can align to help you reach them.
Ron Chesnick
Account Executive
Nick Capparelli
Managing Director
ncapparelli@LEAFnow.com
215.717.3365
Ron Chesnick
Account Executive
rchesnick@LEAFnow.com
267.402.5294
Growth in a Market Like This Takes a Team Like No Other
Capture More New Equipment and Software Opportunities With LEAF
Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.
The Financing Fail That Became a Win
Read More
Read More
What do you do with a request for super-detailed billing for 27 locations? At LEAF, we smiled and took care of it — and then went the extra mile.
Splitting the Bill to Seal the Deal
Read More
Read More
When a six-figure deal on the edge of closing required an urgent modification and customization of the agreement, LEAF was able to get out-of-the-box...
Urgent Customer Need?
Problem Solved
Read More
Read More
Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.
The Financing Fail That Became a Win
Read More
Read More
When a six-figure deal on the edge of closing required an urgent modification and customization of the agreement, LEAF was able to get out-of-the-box...
Urgent Customer Need?
Problem Solved
What do you do with a request for super-detailed billing for 27 locations? At LEAF, we smiled and took care of it — and then went the extra mile.
Splitting the Bill to Seal the Deal
Read More
Read More
Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.
The Financing Fail That Became a Win
When a six-figure deal on the edge of closing required an urgent modification and customization of the agreement, LEAF was able to get out-of-the-box...
Urgent Customer Need?
Problem Solved
Read More
Read More
What do you do with a request for super-detailed billing for 27 locations? At LEAF, we smiled and took care of it — and then went the extra mile.
Splitting the Bill to Seal the Deal
At LEAF, we don’t think outside the box. We were never in the box in the first place. When a company like yours works with us, we go deep – and we get creative. We take the time to really understand your business before getting to work on a solution that doesn’t just check the boxes but also redefines what’s possible.
Better Results Start With
Better Thinking
Solutions like these:
Business Partnership
A faster, easier path to freeing OEMs
from entrenched relationships with underperforming lease and finance providers.
Profit Programs
Profit programs to help channel partners increase cash flow while simultaneously accelerating the sales cycle.
Finance Platform
Advanced finance platform technology to improve the efficiency and mobility of the sales process.
Personalized advisory services and support from a team invested in the long-term evolution and success of OEMs and their channel partners.
Personalization
Creative Solutions
Creative, targeted plans that leverage LEAF’s finance flexibility to stimulate sales in branch and independent channels.
Every business is different, and every solution we create is unique. But they all begin with the same simple question:
What can we do to help move the needle?
Unique Solutions
LEAF is here to support the office products industry in every economic climate and provide a wide variety of resources to assist businesses in developing successful strategies for strengthening sales in a pandemic, understanding market trends, and much more.
Best Practices for Selling Remotely
LEAF 2020 Economic Recovery Survey
Resources for Successfully Navigating a Pandemic Business Environment
Strategic Resources
LEAF’s industry-leading IT team and advanced technology power a more efficient finance program, a better customer experience, and improved decision making by tightly integrating finance program data with common accounting, operations, and CRM solutions.
IT Integration
Whether your marketing plans could benefit from professionally crafted and
customized print/digital sales assets, emails, social media, or an entire multichannel campaign to support a sophisticated strategy, you will have complementary access to the services of one of the industry’s most advanced and capable communications departments.
Marketing Support
Learn More About the FinanceNOW Platform
LEAF’s advanced FinanceNOW platform streamlines the finance process, as well as supports stronger sales and customer experience, with secure instant access to pricing, credit decisions, documents, customer data, and more on any connected device.
FinanceNOW
Backed by the strength of People’s United Bank, the experts at LEAF have gone beyond leading finance programs to create innovative solutions like the LEAF CapitalAlliance™, a suite of capital, integration, and marketing solutions that solve real problems, support continuing business evolution, and help office products businesses position for growth in
the marketplace.
Here are just a few of the advantages the LEAF CapitalAlliance™ can offer your business:
Industry-Targeted Solutions to Power Growth and Drive Results
