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Walter J. Owens is President of CIT Corporate Finance a business segment of CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) a leading global commercial and consumer finance company.
He is responsible for working with CIT’s Corporate Finance business unit leaders in assessing their go-to-market models developing integrated distribution platforms that serve a broad range of product offerings and customer segments and improving operational efficiencies.
Previously Owens was Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of CIT. In this role he oversaw the expansion of the Company’s sales force by nearly 30% established a sales technology infrastructure and built a proactive sales culture that resulted in new business volume increases in excess of 50%.
Prior to joining CIT Owens served as Chief Marketing Officer for GE Commercial Finance where he was responsible for executing growth strategies for existing and new products and markets. Other key positions held at GE included Managing Director and General Manager of GE Small Enterprise Services and Managing Director of Global Securitization for GE Capital Market Services. Owens also led the Heller integration into the GE Corporate Finance Services unit. Before GE Owens served in a number of executive positions with Citibank and Deloitte & Touche.
Owens is a Certified Public Accountant. He received his BS from Villanova University and his MBA from New York University. | 