Equipment Leasing and Finance Association - Equipping Business for Success

Michael Donnary

Senior Director - Banking, Leasing and Lending
Capgemini America, Inc.

Michael Donnary is a business and technology consultant with management and hands-on experience in optimizing asset finance IT organizations.  He has demonstrated a proven ability to leverage the benefits of IT to solve business issues while managing cost and mitigating risk. Michael has spearheaded the selection and implementation of package solutions as well as development and deployment of and custom applications, driving business efficiency resulting in significant cost savings.

Client engagement work includes project management, system selection and implementation, custom software development, global IT strategy, enterprise architecture and organizational change management. Michael started his career in banking technology at Metropolitan Bank Group, and worked as Director of Information Technology at Prime Capital Corporation before becoming a consultant to the Asset Finance industry. Michael is Committee Chair of the ELFA Operations and Technology Committee, co-author of the Business Technology Performance Index, a regular industry author and speaker, and has led asset finance training programs in India, France and North America.

Barbara King

Portfolio Manager
Capgemini America, Inc.

Deborah Reuben CLFP, DES

CEO & Founder
TomorrowZone

Deborah "Deb" Reuben, CLFP, DES, is CEO and Founder of TomorrowZone, a technology strategy consultancy inspiring fresh ideas and collaborations to shape the future of business. She encourages new thinking to explore the art of the possible through her extensive technical knowledge, equipment finance experience, and passion for challenging the status quo. Her expertise will enhance and broaden your company's products and services and create efficiencies that will produce a competitive advantage for your company.

Her view on digital transformation and future-readiness is radically different with over two decades of innovating, speaking, and most importantly, real-life, in-the-trenches innovation experience in finance and software industries. Deborah appreciates and shares with clients and audiences that digital transformation is less about the digital and more about the people. When it comes to thinking about technology, innovation, and the future, you can choose to act today to shape your future. The best investment you can make is investing in what's between your ears by taking ownership of your personal growth. Everyone, regardless of role, must stay on top of technology and trends to stay ahead of tomorrow.

What surprises most clients is her ability to combine big company thinking and entrepreneurial ideas to create marketplace success. Deb's clients and audiences include companies like PNC, Wells Fargo, DLL Group, Huntington (TCF Bank), Dell, Mitsubishi UFG, Caterpillar, Key Equipment Finance.

She currently serves on the CLFP Foundation Board of Directors and authored The Certified Lease and Finance Professionals' Handbook, 6^th – 9^th editions. She served on ELFA's Board of Directors and is the founder and chair of the ELFA Innovation Advisory Council. In partnership with ELFA, she and her team moderate quarterly industry innovation roundtables for the ELFA to bring forward-thinking insights and fresh ideas to ELFA Members.

Reuben also served on the Monitor Editorial Advisory Board and co-founded the Disrupted+ innovation conference series with Monitor. She is the recipient of both the CLFP Foundation Cindy Spurdle Award of Excellence and the ELFA Michael J. Fleming Distinguished Service Award. Monitor Magazine honored her as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women Leaders in Equipment Finance, named TomorrowZone one of the most innovative companies in the equipment finance ecosystem and honored her as an Industry Disruptor Icon. Learn more at tomorrowzone.io.

David Trost CLFP

GM, Financial Services
FortifID Inc.