Western Regional Manager - CIT Commercial Services

Mitchell (Mitch) Cohen is Western Regional Manager of CIT Commercial Services. His responsibilities include client service and retention, ensuring client credit quality and profitability, and new business development throughout the Western United States, as well as CIT’s Hong Kong office and the Pan Pacific region. CIT Commercial Services is one of the nation’s leading providers of factoring and lending services to the apparel, textiles, furniture, home furnishings, housewares, consumer electronics and consumer products industries.

Areas of expertise:

Factoring and credit protection solutions for companies that want to increase sales, improve cash flow, reduce operating expenses and eliminate customer

Financing solutions for consumer products companies (apparel, footwear, housewares, furniture and home furnishings)

Lending against trademarks and brands Cohen has more than 30 years of experience in the financing industry.

Prior to joining CIT, he served as Senior Vice President for Bank of Newport. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President with Mitsui Manufacturers Bank. In 2004, Cohen was honored with the Spirit of Life Award by the Apparel Industries Group for the City of Hope and was the recipient of the 1999 Humanitarian Award from National Jewish Medical and Research Center.

He serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Jewish Medical and Research Center and is a past director of the Commercial Finance Conference of California (CFCC), and is a member of the Textile Professionals Club, and the Commercial Finance Association. Cohen earned a BS in Accounting from the State University of New York and is a graduate of the University of Washington’s Pacific Coast Banking School. He also completed the Wharton Executive Development Program.

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