Responsible for the strategic direction of Rollup Financial Corp., Michael is the Founder and former CEO of Econolease Financial Services Inc. which he exited following a successful sale to a Private Equity-backed competitor in 2022.  Michael grew Econolease from infancy into the country’s largest non-bank finance player in the food service and hospitality marketplace.
 

Michael guided Econolease to sales originations over 9-figures annually, developed a robust internal finance book, opened up new market verticals for the business and led the company’s expansion into the US.  He was responsible for all aspects of Econolease’s business, including marketing and development of new finance products like payment processing and buy-now-pay-later, the internal development of  proprietary lease management software, and managing high-level relationships with key business customers and suppliers. He successfully navigated Econolease through the COVID pandemic downturn.

 

Prior to Econolease, Michael had an eight year career at Shaw Communications as director of sales and service in Central Canada. An avid golfer he also worked at Nike and the PGA Tour.

A CFA charterholder and former banker specializing in structuring and managing private securitization, bulk lease and secured loan transactions, Jeff is a former Econolease Financial Services executive. Jeff joined Econolease in 2019 to help with the acquisition of the Canadian receivables of an international equipment lending business and the establishment of Vendorlender Funding Corp., Econolease’s internal capital lease lending business.  In addition to overseeing the accounting and finance department, Jeff was responsible for obtaining the securitization facilities and assisting with the development of the credit, documentation, funding and collections departments, as well as working with the development team to enhance the Company's proprietary lease administration software's portfolio servicing and reporting capabilities.  

 

Prior to joining Econolease, Jeff was a Director at TAO Asset Management (now 990 Capital Management Inc.) working on the BOAT Capital joint venture initiative with the Business Development Bank of Canada, to provide capital to small and medium sized independent finance companies.  Jeff was responsible for the structuring and management of automotive and equipment finance securitization transactions that ranged in size from $20MM to $500MM.