The Secured Lender - March 2010

Richard M. Kohn Co – General Counsel Richard Kohn is a founder and senior principal of Goldberg Kohn. He is a member of the firm’s Commercial Finance Group, recognized as one of the strongest and most diversified commercial finance practices in the country. Since 1989, Kohn has also specialized in representing lenders in international lending transactions. Since 2002, Kohn has served as Co-General Counsel of CFA. He represented CFA in developing the U.N. Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade and currently serves on a panel of experts assisting UNCITRAL in developing a guide to help countries modernize their secured transactions laws. He is a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and a member of the Founders Leadership Council of the CFA Education Foundation. Kohn is a frequent author and speaker on commercial finance topics, often in the area of international lending.

Andrej L. Suskavcevic CEO & Secretary

Andrej Suskavcevic joined the Commercial Finance Association, the premier trade association for the asset-based lending and factoring industries, in the fall of 2007 as its chief executive officer. In addition to CFA’s Management Committee, he also serves on the Executive Committee. Previously he was with Financial Executives International, a professional association for CFOs, controllers and treasurers, where he served as vice president of operations. Before joining FEI, he served as chief operating officer at Zepter International, an international cookware and table top company. He also has experience in banking, insurance and financial services.

Suskavcevic, a Certified Associa-
tion Executive, is an active member of
the American Society of Association
Executives and was a chairman of its
Component Relations Section Council
in 2006. He holds a B.S. in finance and
an M.B. A. from New York University’s
Stern School of Business. He resides
in Flemington, NJ with his wife Lauren
and three children.

Deborah J. Monosson Immediate Past Chairperson

Deborah Monosson is president and CEO of Boston Financial & Equity Corporation. She began her career there in 1989 as a sales associate. BFEC provides accounts receivable financing and equipment leasing to “high risk” credits. Its clients include venture capital-backed start-up companies, turnarounds and some Chapter 11s. Prior to joining Boston Financial & Equity Corporation, Monosson was with the Syndicate Department at Dean Witter Reynolds and a Commodity Futures trader at E. F. Hutton. She has a B.S. degree in business from Skidmore College and an M.B.A. from Boston University.

She is vice chairwoman of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation and is also a member of CFA’s Executive Committee. She has served on the boards of the Association for Corporate Growth, Boston, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association and the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge.