GE Capital International appoints commercial and growth leader

Global mid-market specialist finance provider GE Capital International has expanded its senior leadership team with the appointment of Henry Allen as commercial and growth leader of the firm’s international business, encompassing all markets outside the Americas.

The firm said the appointment is part of its ongoing focus to grow its core commercial leasing and lending business in global markets.

Allen will be based in London and report directly to Richard Laxer, president and CEO of GE Capital International. He has over 25 years of financial services experience across leasing, lending and private equity, in both the consumer and commercial finance segments.

Allen joins GE Capital from Aurora Consultants and prior to this he was CEO of The Receivables Exchange in New York. He spent nine years at Marsh Inc. in New York and London ending as president, multinational business, where he was responsible for designing and implementing an enterprise-wide client service strategy across more than 40 countries and all product lines. Before joining Marsh, Allen served in various leadership and functional roles with GE Capital and 3i.

As part of his new role, Allen will assume responsibility for the marketing, strategy, commercial excellence, global financial solutions, pan-European equipment finance and fleet teams.