United Equipment Leasing Association Loses One Member

The “official number” given to us for the end of last year count was 379 members.

Jim McCommon, UAEL media representative, told us the end of year

2002 is 378.  He also sent us the enclosed press release:

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President Bette Kerhoulas, CLP, said ‘We were gratified that at a time of economic challenge and consolidation in our industry, that our membership stayed fairly level,”

Bill Grohe, Past UAEL President and current Membership Director said,  “Involvement in Association activities adds value to the members’ professional strengths and abilities.  Our educational programs (including 2 scheduled CLP Institutes for Leasing Professionals) and conferences (Spring Education Conference in Palm Desert and Annual Convention and Exposition in Portland) bring members into contact with the profession’s best practices and with the industry leaders who are developing those practices and making them work. 

UAEL was established in 1974 as an association bringing together all segments of the leasing industry, including brokers, independent lessors, funders, bankers and service providers.  It is the only leasing association that extends full voting privileges to all members. 

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The press release from UAEL noted that all its members “have full voting privileges,” most likely a reference to the National Association of Equipment Leasing Brokers, where only brokers may vote in election of officer, not “funders.”

New UAEL Office Address:

78-120 Calle Estado Suite 201

La Quinta, CA 92253

Phone: (760) 564-2227

Fax: (760) 564-2206

Website: www.UAEL.org

newline@uael.org

advertising@uael.org

membership@uael.org

institute@uael.org

ethics@uael.org

2002 UAEL Staff

Joe Woodley

Chief Executive Officer / jwoodley@uael.org

Bill Grohe.

Director of Membership and Marketing / bill@uael.org

Originally the Western Association of Equipment Leasing (WAEL,) the

organization expanded to the East Coast.  In recent years, the

membership has been "leveling off." The executive director

works out of Southern California with an administrative assistant

and the membership director works out of his office in San Francisco.

There are "off site" part-time employees, plus services hired

for specific operations, it is reported.

The Certified Leasing Professional ( CLP ) program started here was "spun

off" and is now a joint association sponsored and run "foundation.." There

are currently 231 Certified Leasing Professionals.  http://www.clpfoundation.org/

UAEL evolved from "sigs," industry segments represented at the board level and at conferences, and from active regional meetings to  "funding symposiums" conducted throughout the United States. "We got  complaints from the funding source members about their employees doing too  many regional meetings. It was too expensive for them to send all of their  people to the regional meetings "(so we changed) from 24 regional meetings  to the 6 super regional events," former president Bob Rodi, CPL, describes it.

Here is a message from President Betty Kerhoulas, CLP:

http://www.uael.org/about/benefits/

Dues:

Broker/Lessor ($0-10 million)...............................$   595

Broker/Lessor ($10-20 million)..............................$   995

Broker/Lessor (20+million)................ .................$ 1,295

Funder... ..................................................$ 1,995    

Service Providers (less than 6 employees)...................$   795

Service Providers (6 or more employees).....................$ 1,495