Team Building
Establishing Effective Goal Acceptance & Ensuring Collective Execution to Consistently Deliver Results
Vince Belcastro
Group Head Syndications & Capital Markets
Element Fleet Management
Talk Overview
It is critical for good leaders to build a cohesive team and to ensure goal alignment. There is a strategy to picking the right people as well as integrating current team members to establish a consistent plan and find successful, enduring solutions.
Why Select this Talk?
This Talk will provide valuable insight on how the formation of the right team can impact every aspect of a business, from start-up creation to day-to-day management.
How You Learn
We will discuss both my successes and failures over the years in team formation - what has worked and what has not. A Q&A will give participants the opportunity to translate these experiences into their own professional lives.
Takeaways
How to collectively manage a variety of different personalities to reach common goals, how to coordinate all levels to buy into a shared vision, and how to stay on the path to success beyond the short-term.
Vince Belcastro
Vincent (Vince) Belcastro is a senior banking executive with a diverse background in a wide array of sectors in commercial lending, risk analysis and valuations in both the Middle Market and the Large Corporate sectors. Vince has an entrepreneurial background with strong expertise in managing new business, operational and strategic platforms. This represents a unique background when coupled with strong credit risk management experience and processes. Vince has been successful in launching and managing several de-novo new business platforms within large financial institutions. Vince has also successfully consolidated both business platforms and portfolio acquisitions throughout his career.
Currently, Vince is the group head Syndications at Element Fleet Finance where Vince is responsible for the build out and growth of a group that will focus on financing and sell side activities for structured equipment lending and leasing. Vince was the author of a plan that was reviewed by the board of the bank, approved and launched upon my arrival. Prior to this role Vince started a large term lending business at Santander Bank. This group which has been staffed with senior professionals that Vince recruited enjoyed a successful and profitable launch and buildout. The group grew to over $2 billion of funded exposure and grew by over 20% CAGR on a year over year basis since inception.
Prior to joining Santander as the Group Head of Equipment Finance, Vince spent a large part of his career at CIT Group Inc., where he previously started and successfully grew the large corporate equipment finance group. Prior to this role, Vince served as a senior risk officer within Corporate Finance. In this capacity, Vince was instrumental in the launch, team build-out, and integration of the Healthcare Finance and the Problem Loan Management groups with assets under management of more than $4 billion.
Before joining CIT in 2001, Vince served in a variety of senior relationship management positions at Citibank N.A. where Vince was responsible for sourcing and structuring new corporate financing transactions. Prior to Citibank, Vince held several transaction-oriented credit and relationship management oriented positions, at both Republic National Bank and Bankers Trust (Deutsche Bank), supporting deal-related financing activities in Latin America and Asia covering metals and other related mining industries.