John
LaRocca is an experienced B2B and B2C equipment
leasing, credit, operations, sales executive
and expert witness. He is a Q2C partner
and senior vice president of marketing and
business development for CreditPointe, Inc.,
providing insightful, timely, independent
analysis, rating and monitoring of all global
public companies including comprehensive
analysis of aggregate credit risk trends
per industry. Services include a flexible,
intelligently automated lending platform
for scored and non-scored products. For
additional information visit: www.creditpointe.com
John
is a founding partner of Quote To Cash Solutions,
helping companies improve their working
capital management. In 2005-06 he has worked
on behalf of: The US Dept. of State's USAID,
Avnet, Inc., Dell, Inc., and Dell Financial
Services, GE Commercial Distribution Finance,
The Bank of Georgia's (former Soviet block)
Georgian Leasing Company and Mellon Global
Cash Management. For additional information
visit: www.quotetocash.biz
He
was vice president of operations, then president
and CEO of LeasingX, Inc., an equipment
leasing auction marketplace for Gateway,
and earlier served as senior vice president
of operations and information systems at
De Lage Landen (DLL) Financial Services,
and vice president of customer care, senior
vice president of operations and information
systems for Tokai Financial Services.
John
was with Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), Palo
Alto, California, as HP's global sales manager
for MicroAge Inc., where his team achieved
>$1 billion in annual sales. Preceding
this he was HP's Americas and global credit,
collections and accounts receivable manager.
HP's global computer lease-marketing manager
and government contracts sales manager,
a major account computer sales representative,
a regional leasing and contracts manager,
an order processing supervisor, and a credit
specialist.
He
was president of Micro Systems Leasing (B2C)
and vice president of lease marketing for
Phoenix Leasing and Phoenix American (B2B),
San Rafael, CA
John held sales, leasing, credit and process
management positions with Bayuk Cigars,
Inc., FTI (B2B), Household Finance Company
(B2C) and Transamerica.
John
has been a member of the Dun & Bradstreet
Advisory Group since 1985. He is a consulting
member to the Credit Research Foundation
and was a member of the Computer Technology
Industry Association's (CompTIA) finance
committee.
John
was a marketing major at LaSalle College,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and also earned
a credit certificate from the Robert Morris
Association and a team management certificate
from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University.