Expertise: Building and leading highly performing sales teams, equipment and commercial finance, business development, government finance, tax-exempt and taxable financing, capital markets

Shawn Arnone, Managing Director, Key Equipment Finance Capital Markets and President, Key Government Finance, has more than 30 years of customer relationship management experience, particularly in the equipment and commercial finance sectors. His dual role combines his business development and executive leadership experience to ensure Key continues to support bank relationships and remains a dominant force within the equipment financing industry.

As managing director for the Key Equipment Finance Capital Markets business, Shawn oversees a Capital Markets team and syndicating loans and leases to mitigate risk concentrations and generate fee income and buying transactions to diversify and enhance portfolio credit quality.

Additionally, as president of Key Government Finance, Shawn oversees the group’s government finance activities on all tax-exempt and taxable financing in the public nonprofit sectors and tax-exempt financing in the healthcare sector.

Shawn has served on the Equipment Leasing Finance Association’s (ELFA) Captive and Vendor and Small Ticket business steering committees and as industry liaison to ELFA’s LeasePac initiative. 

Prior to joining Key Equipment Finance, Arnone served in equipment financing roles with Canon Business Solutions, CIT, RBS Citizens Asset Finance, and EverBank Commercial Finance. He holds an MBA degree from Baruch College and attended St. Peter’s University for his undergraduate studies.