Ex-WAEL Prez to Be New Chief Executive Officer

Joe Woodley, CLP,  is the new full-time  United Association of Equipment Leasing  ( UAEL )Chief Executive Officer.  He will continue at Westover Financial.  Steve Jones is the president of Westover. He was president of the organization in 1987, when it was the Western Association of Equipment Lessors

( WAEL )..

Joanie Dalton,  former executive  former meeting planner, executive director, has been elevated to Chief Operating Officer.

“ This is a very, very positive move for our association, “ Joanie Dalton said.

“ It is also both very positive for me personally and professionally…to have

a mentor such as Joe Woodley is perfect.  We can provide more benefits to

our members. 2002 will be an exciting year for UAEL.”

Bill Grohe, who was president of the organization in 1991 when it was WAEL, remains as membership director.

Since the departure of long time executive vice-president Dr. Raymond Williams, CAE,  Joanie Dalton along with the executive committee, utilized “outsourcing”

to keep the budget in line.

 2001 president Chuck Brazier, CLP, Centerpoint Financial,

says it is “ time to get the executive committee out of running the office and to

spend more time with members, listening to them, providing solutions, and being more active.

“This will provide consistent leadership, giving Joanie more time to run the

office, work on conferences.  It will give management more time to work

with members, plus give time to the executive committee to meet with

committees, make committees work, and bring balance back to our

organization.”

Brazier said  the 2001 UAEL board meeting along with the 2001 UAEL

Board UAEL board meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina produced many positive changes, which he will outline in a letter to be made available to all members he hoped by this Wednesday. He was attending the Eastern Assoication

of Equipment Leasing, where Equipment Leasing Association President Mike

Fleming was scheduled to speak.

“ We need to get the executive board and board back to member services, “ he said. “ Joe is doing this job out of the love for the association, as Bill Grohe

is doing…not for the money.”

The UAEL membership directory shows Westover Financial, Ontario, California

as a “broker/lessor” with twenty employees; Steve Jones as president. The

company accepts “broker business. ”The November, 1987 issue of WAEL “Newsline” has a picture, to be put on the Leasing News Website. ( ironically it is a picture of Woodley turning the gavel over to Ben Millerbus, 1998 president, who will be serving on the 2002 board of directors as “past president,” a position rotated among past presidents.)

1988 WAEL President-elect Ben Millerbis (right) of Pentech Financial Services receives the traditional letter of advice from 1987 President Joe Woodley, Westover Financial, during passing of the gavel at WAEL Elections & Awards Meeting at Hawaii Conference

The October/November 1986 edition shows he served a vice-president in 1987, and  “…also served as Secretary  /Treasurer and has been on the Board of Directors since 1982.  He chained the Spring Conference in 1985, and was Chairman of the Management Review Committee in 1984 and the Government Affairs Task Force in 1985.

Here also is a picture of recent Certified Lease Professional Graduates in

1987:

The third set of Certified Lease Professionals was granted final approval and received plaques commemorating the designation at the Fall Conference in Hawaii. New CLPs recognized by WAEL President Joe Woodley (left) were from left: Michael Walsh, Atlantic Financial Savings Bank; Ron Wagner, Heritage Leasing Capital; Brian Pindell, Commercial Equipment Lease Corp.; Ben Millerbis, Pentech Financial Services; Peter Eaton, First National Leasing Corp.; Duane Russell, Atlantic Financial Savings Bank. Not shown was Robert Ackerly, Chase Manhattan Leasing.

Randy Bauler, CAE, was WAEL Executive Vice-President, along with

Arthur Schwartz, CAE, Associate Director