President James Franz

Mr. Franz’s 30+ years’ experience in accounting, commercial banking and commercial finance organizations includes Price Waterhouse, Citibank, M&T Bank, Keltic Financial Services, Ares Commercial Finance, and Next Edge Capital. In the last 20 years, he focused on asset-based lending and factoring and has an outstanding track record building highly profitable and secure ABL businesses. Mr. Franz was a Partner and National Sales Manager at Keltic Financial Services and a Managing Director at Ares Management, serving on both the Management and Investment Committees for Ares Commercial Finance.  Mr. Franz holds a BA in Accounting from St. Bonaventure University.