Member Talk Carrying those 3 little letters (CLP) after my name on all my business cards and correspondence has given me a vote of confidence by my Vendors and Lessees. they have told me they feel a real sense
Tuesday
September 7, 2010
| Setting the Standard for Leasing & Finance Professionals the World Over |
Executive Director
Cindy Spurdle
Cindy Spurdle has been the executive director of the Certified Leasing Professional Foundation since 2000. Cindy began her career in 1982 Wrigley Group Ltd., a family owned leasing company started by her father. Cindy and her husband purchased the business in 1988. "In 1990 I was working on a transaction with a broker in Albany, NY, Gerry Oestreich, who later became President of the NAELB. He told me about a brand new association called the NAELB just getting underway in Atlanta." She took the position as the first Executive Director of the NAELB in 1998 and took over the management of the entire association, except the books, and all of the conferences and meetings for two years. She then went to the United Association of Equipment Leasing office, helped with the conference activities before taking the position as Executive Director of the CLP Foundation in 2000. Cindy is active at many conferences for all the associations, a hard worked, always in the background, gets the job done, above and beyond what is asked of her.
| Professional Experience | |
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| Present Positions | |
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CLP Foundation (Certified Lease Professionals) | |
| 1998 – April 2000 | National Association of Equipment Leasing Brokers (NAELB) |
| Executive Director – Responsibilities included long and short range planning; membership retention and expansion; site selection, planning and coordinating annual and regional conferences; develop new programs and benefits; direct committees plus all administrative responsibilities. Leasing experience (see below) enabled me to provide answers to a broad range of inquires from members on a daily basis. | |
| 1982 – 1998 | The Wrigley Group Ltd. |
| 1982 – 1988 | Vice President – Created leasing programs for vendors, trained their sales force on how to use leasing as a valuable marketing tool to close the sale. Managed a new Limited Partnership established with a local corporation to lease equipment manufactured by their subsidiaries nationwide. Brokered leases for other vendors and consulted on leasing with area banks. |
| 1988 – 1998 | President – Added four more subsidiaries to our Limited Partnership. Management of the Partnership portfolio remained in house, taking the lessee from initial contact through to lease commencement and then closing. The total portfolio was about 22 million at its peak representing about 250 individual leases, both small and middle ticket. Expanded bank and vendor relationships, including two more limited partnerships and added municipal leasing to our services. |
| 1969 – 1982 | ARA Food Services (now known as ARAMARK) |
| 1969 – 1977 | Assistant Food Service Director at five colleges in New England. Food Service Director for three years at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
| 1977 – 1978 | Operations auditor for national accounts, assigned to corporate headquarters, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1978 – 1982 | Supervised a team of individuals who traveled nationwide to ARA managed facilities training local management how to maximize profits and minimize labor costs through a computerized ARA menu system. |
| Association Membership | NAELB |
| 1991 | Charter Member |
| 1994 – 1996 | Board Director – in 1995 assumed responsibility for meeting site selection, planning, coordinating of all annual conferences and regional meetings. |
| 1996 – 1998 | Secretary of the Board |