Growth in a Market Like This Takes a Team Like No Other
Capture More New Foodservice Equipment Opportunities With LEAF
As a FEDA member leading the dynamic and competitive foodservice equipment 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 foodservice equipment opportunities and position for strength as the hospitality 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 financing and capital solutions for what’s next. People with extensive foodservice equipment 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 M&T Bank, the experts at LEAF have gone beyond leading finance programs to create innovative solutions that solve real problems, create additional value, support continuing business evolution, and help FEDA members position for growth in the hospitality marketplace.
Growing in the foodservice equipment 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.
Firmly rooted in delivering flexible finance solutions for a wide variety of industries, LEAF’s leadership team draws on a wealth of experience creating programs, structures, and competitive differentiators that have driven FEDA members and their businesses 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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Michelle Speranza
EVP, Chief Marketing Officer
Miles Herman
Chief Executive Officer
John Beard
EVP, Chief Risk Officer
Sandy Graydus
SVP, Corporate Operations
Paul Tyczkowski SVP, Finance
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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 foodservice equipment distributors and dealers from entrenched relationships with underperforming lease and finance providers.
Personalized advisory services and support from a team invested in the long-term evolution and success of FEDA members like you.
Creative, targeted plans that leverage LEAF’s finance flexibility to break through buyer hesitation and close sales faster.
Bundled solutions, regular sales incentives, and limited-time promotions help increase cash flow while simultaneously accelerating the sales cycle and earning you more on every deal.
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.
It's time for people like the ones at LEAF.
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, along with how we can support FEDA members like you. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your goals and share more about how we can align to help you reach them.
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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 AutoQuotes and common accounting, operations, and CRM solutions.
LEAF is here to support FEDA members in every economic climate and provide a wide variety of resources to assist businesses in developing successful strategies for strengthening foodservice equipment sales, understanding market trends, and much more.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Special structuring customized for eight locations? When the customer’s go-to finance company said no, we said yes.
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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.
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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
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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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Business Partnership
A faster, easier path to freeing foodservice equipment distributors and dealers from entrenched relationships with underperforming lease and finance providers.
Increased Profits
Bundled solutions, regular sales incentives, and limited-time promotions help increase cash flow while simultaneously accelerating the sales cycle and earning you more on every deal.
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 FEDA members like you.
Personalization
Creative Solutions
Creative, targeted plans that leverage LEAF’s finance flexibility to break through buyer hesitation and close sales faster.
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 FEDA members in every economic climate and provide a wide variety of resources to assist businesses in developing successful strategies for strengthening foodservice equipment sales, understanding market trends, and much more.
10 Equipment Investment Trends in the Hospitality Industry Today
Capitalizing on New Travel and Dining Trends
Growing Revenue With “Bleisure”
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 AutoQuotes and 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 experiences, 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:
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Schedule a Meeting During the FEDA Conference to Learn More
Schedule a Meeting During the FEDA Conference to Learn More
Rob Wasson
Vice President - Hospitality & Retail Finance Group
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Director, Business Development
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Vice President - Hospitality & Retail Finance Group
Firmly rooted in delivering flexible finance solutions for a wide variety of industries, LEAF’s leadership team draws on a wealth of experience creating programs, structures, and competitive differentiators that have driven FEDA members and their businesses across decades of market shifts.
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.