Carl D’Ammassa appointed UK Leasing Foundation’s new chairman

“The Foundation’s educational programmes are excellent and will help build a sustainable industry at a time when many financial services institutions are not effectively investing in people. I’m looking forward to working with the Foundation to further unify the industry as a strong and vibrant community of professionals”.

Andrew Denton, Foundation CEO added: “We warmly welcome Carl’s decision to step into the important role of chair of the Foundation. We know that with his support we will continue to grow the Foundation’s influence by shaping our programmes around the needs of the industry and working with other bodies to benefit the whole of the industry”.

D’Ammassa’s appointment as chair is one of several new appointments including former Close Brothers Asset Finance CEO Mike Randall to the Foundation’s Board; and the appointment of new governors of the Foundation including:

●  Jo Davis (Locke Lord);

●  Fran Watson (Siemens Financial Services);

●  Gavin Wraith-Carter (Hitachi Capital Business Finance);

●  Gabriele D’Uva (GE Capital); and

●  John Chadwick (Acquis Insurance Management).

The Foundation also continues to invite new Fellows to the Foundation including most recently Stephen Jenkins (Tower Leasing), Colin Tourick (International Auto Finance Network) and Sean Read (Syscap).