Equipment Leasing

Peter K. Nevitt is one of the pioneers of equipment leasing with over thirty-five years of experience. He is generally credited with being one of the inventors of leveraged leasing and synthetic leasing. Up until 1998 he headed Mitsui Nevitt Capital Corporation for ten years. Prior to that, he served for ten years first as President then as Chairman of BankAmeriLease. Nevitt was also the founder and president of two other leasing companies, GATX Leasing Corporation and First Chicago Leasing Corporation. Nevitt now provides advice to leasing companies as a consultant. He has authored two other books and over 100 articles and booklets on leasing and equipment financing.Mr. Nevitt is an attorney and received his BS and JD from Northwestern University.
Frank J. Fabozzi is editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management and an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale University’s School of Management. Frank is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant. He is on the board of directors of the Guardian Life family of funds and the BlackRock complex of funds. He earned a doctorate of economics from the City University of New York in 1972 and in 1994 received an honorary doctorate of Human Letters from Nova Southeastern University. Frank is a Fellow of the International Center for Finance at Yale University.