Rodney Schansman, Chief Executive Officer

Rodney serves as Ftrans' CEO and member of the Board of Directors and is responsible for leadership and strategic direction of the company. He is a 25-year veteran of commercial finance, healthcare finance and private equity. As a 15-year veteran and Senior Vice President of Bank of America Specialized Lending group, Rodney's experience spans the operating disciplines of commercial finance including underwriting, origination, technology and funding. After growing BofA’s Specialized Lending portfolio to $ 1 billion in net funds employed and selling it to GMAC in 2000, Rodney spent three years as an SVP with Bank of America Equity Partners deploying the bank’s capital in strategic investments. Rodney co-founded Finacity, Inc. (with JV partners Kleiner Perkins, Euler ACI and Texas Pacific Group), a technology-enabled receivables securitization company. Rodney has also led the start-up of several other healthcare financing companies including Inworks Servicing, a healthcare payment cycle management and funding company and Prime Revenue, a vendor finance technology company. Mr. Schansman graduated from Georgia State University with degrees in Accounting and Finance.

 

John C. Marsha, II, VP Sales

John joined Ftrans in March 2011 and serves as VP Sales leading our sales strategy and execution. His 20 years of experience includes both direct sales and management experience with financing, credit and insurance solutions. John joined Ftrans from CIT Trade Finance/Commercial Services where he was a Director of Business Development in the Americas for five years. John has extensive trade credit insurance experience from his previous positions with Marsh and Aon Risk Services.

John earned a BA in Economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. John can be contacted at john dot marsha at ftrans dot net.

 

Anne M. Roe, Vice President of Operations

Anne brings over 20 years of experience in operations and customer service to Ftrans and is vice president of operations. Prior to joining Ftrans, Anne managed multiple front-line reps and managers at Fortune 100 companies. Anne has an established record of exceeding goals and has enhanced customer satisfaction through employee motivation, process improvement, and facilitating interdepartmental relations. Anne’s focus on customer service and administration has led to increased customer loyalty and profitability.

 

Todd E. Knudsen, Vice President of Finance

Todd Knudsen brings over 13 years of public accounting and finance experience to Ftrans and is vice president of finance. Prior to joining Ftrans, Todd was a vice president at Wachovia Bank. While at Wachovia, he underwrote $425MM in commercial real estate transactions and managed a $925MM portfolio. Todd started at Wachovia in portfolio management, where he analyzed credit risk and developed risk mitigation strategies for the commercial loan portfolio for senior management. Prior to Wachovia, Todd was an accounting manager for a $200MM computer reseller. Todd started his career as an auditor for Arthur Andersen where he provided audit and consulting services for both public and private companies primarily in the manufacturing and healthcare industries. Todd is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Todd earned a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

 

John Chandy, Vice President of Software & Development

John Chandy brings over 12 years of experience building financial transaction systems to Ftrans and is director of development. While at Opus Software, John worked on multiple financial application development projects such as Western Union's Web-enabled money order system, Delos Payment Systems’ (now CoreCard Software) fraud detection and collection system, PaySys’s online credit decision management system, HDFC’s ATM fraud monitoring software, and HDFC’s TradeNow e-commerce brokerage system. In addition, John has developed applications for ICICI Bank, Robertson Bank, and HDFC Bank (India).

John earned a B.S in Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune (India).