Industry Personnel And Company News

May 4, 2007
First Capital: Anthony Brown was named international region managing director. In this role, he will be responsible for leading First Capital’s international trade business, reporting to Mark Sunshine, president and COO. Mr. Brown has been actively involved in business expansion and product development initiatives in a variety of US-based and international industries. He has previously held executive management positions with GMAC Commercial Finance, International Management Consultants, MTB Bank, Manufacturers Hanover Corporation, and was the CEO and co-founder of the Trading Alliance Corporation where he pioneered purchase order financing and positioned it as the premier U.S. source of transactional trade finance for fast-growing international traders.

At his most recent position at GMAC Commercial Finance, Mr. Brown spearheaded product and business development of end-to-end supply chain financing and managed overseas financial institution relationships. He held full responsibility for their North American import and export factoring business of approximately $1 billion in volume. Mr. Brown graduated from the London School of Economics and attended the Corporate Finance program at Harvard Business School.