Vincent Belcastro
Managing Director and Group Head, CIT Capital Equipment Finance
Vincent (Vince) Belcastro is Managing Director and Group Head of CIT Capital Equipment Finance where he is responsible for overseeing financing activities for large ticket equipment leasing and lending, as well as project finance related activities. Belcastro is a senior credit professional and expert structuring specialist with more than 20 years of secured financing and leveraged finance experience primarily in the corporate middle market arena. During this time he has covered companies in a wide array of diverse and unique industry sectors.
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Prior to being named Group Head of CIT Capital Equipment Finance, Belcastro served as senior risk officer within CIT Corporate Finance. He was instrumental in the launch, team build-out and integration of CIT’s Problem Loan Management and Healthcare groups.Before joining CIT in 2001, he served in a variety of senior relationship management positions at Citibank N.A. where he was responsible for sourcing and structuring new corporate financing and leasing transactions. Prior to Citibank, he held several transaction-oriented credit positions, at both Republic National Bank and Deutsche Bank, supporting deal-related financing activities in Latin America and Asia.
He is an active member of the Commercial Finance Association, Equipment Lessors and Finance Association, American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association. He is also active as Board Advisor to a middle market manufacturing company. Belcastro received his BS degrees in Economics and Finance from Saint Francis College. He also completed the Deutsche Bank credit training program.
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