Thomas DeppingExecutive Vice President, Ascentium Group ManagerTom Depping, Executive Vice President, Ascentium Group Manager, has over 30 years of experience in commercial finance and bank lending. Looking to fill a market need to bring efficiency, service excellence and competitive financing products to small businesses, it was Tom’s vision that resulted in the creation of Ascentium Capital. In August 2011 Main Street Bank’s lending platform was acquired by Ascentium Capital to create an independent finance company built on service excellence. Tom, along with a group of investors, acquired Main Street Bank in 2004 and became its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Under Tom’s leadership, Main Street Bank created a small business lending platform and quickly grew from a local community bank to a national small business lender with $500 million in assets. Prior to his tenure at Main Street Bank, in 1994 Tom founded and served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of First Sierra Financial, Inc., a publicly-held, small-business finance company. First Sierra, under Tom’s direction grew from a start-up to a company with $3 billion in assets and a best-in-class servicing platform that provided unparalleled automation and process efficiency. First Sierra was sold to American Express in 2001. Tom was with SunAmerica Financial Resources and its predecessor, First City Leasing Corporation, from 1981 to 1994 and served as President from 1991 to 1994. SunAmerica Financial Resources was an equipment leasing, merchant bank operation that bought and sold equipment lease portfolios. As President, in a two-year span, Tom took the company from $1.1 million in pretax earnings to $13.73 million. Tom was named Houston's financial-services company Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998. Tom is a Certified Public Accountant and began his professional career with KPMG. Tom graduated cum laude from Eastern Michigan University. |
Eric LemireSenior Vice President, Ascentium OperationsEric Lemire, Senior Vice President, Ascentium Operations, brings over 14 years of financial experience. Eric started his career with Concord Commercial, a division of HSBC in Buffalo, NY. The division was acquired by Alter Moneta in 2004 and he became the Treasurer for their Montreal office in Canada. Eric then led Treasury at Mericap Credit and subsequently worked as the Senior Vice President Capital Markets and Treasury Manager for First American Equipment Finance. Eric joined Ascentium Capital in 2012, as Senior Vice President of Finance and managed budgeting, forecasting, reporting, tax planning and general corporate finance. He was also on the Wholesale Truck and Finance Board of Directors. Eric obtained an MBA from Canisius College where he graduated with the highest GPA in the school and was inducted to Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Business School Society and also has a Bachelors in Business Administration from the Quebec University in Montreal. |
Richard BaccaroSenior Vice President, Ascentium Vendor Sales
|
Daniel BocashSenior Vice President, Ascentium Asset Management
|
Ben EarthmanSenior Vice President, Ascentium Legal
|
David LyderSenior Vice President, Ascentium Sales & MarketingDavid Lyder, CPA, CMA is Senior Vice President, Ascentium Sales & Marketing. David joined Ascentium Capital in 2014. Prior to Ascentium, David served as the Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations for Direct Capital (a division of CIT). Before entering the equipment finance field, David was an audit manager with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Boston, MA. David graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. |
David PedersonSenior Vice President, Ascentium Technology
|
Ozgen SayginsoySenior Vice President, Ascentium Risk Management
|
Hernan TraversoneSenior Vice President, Ascentium Credit
|