Jan Szmigin, MBA (Cranfield), began his financial marketing career in 1980 as a relationship manager at Chase Manhattan Bank and moved into leasing as VP-Marketing. After seven years as managing director of Hambros Vendor Leasing, he shifted focus to Central and Eastern Europe. There he established one of the first leasing companies in Poland, followed by a captive network for AT&T Capital from a hub in Vienna. He concluded this period abroad by establishing De Lage Landen Leasing Polska SA. After returning to the UK he was a Principal for a leasing consultancy for seven years before founding LeasingWorld.

Allan Foad spent 35 years with Lloyds TSB Bank, which included two spells of working in leasing/asset finance. In 1994, he commenced his second spell as deputy managing director of Lloyds Leasing. A big-ticket specialist, he went on to play a crucial role in the bank's Structured Asset Finance business providing solutions for the purchase of major strategic assets and taking on complex transactions in the international arena.

David Winders is a business architect, providing consulting and training services such as ”Target Operating Models“, lean design and the shaping of major transformation initiatives. He has a background in leasing and asset finance, and looks after a variety of Household-name clients of his own company, Dever Solutions Limited, both within asset finance and the wider financial services market, including life, pensions, multifunds and general insurance.

Sarah Knott is Practice Manager at Howard Painter & Co Ltd, of Worcester, and deals with all the day-to-day aspects of LeasingWorld's financial administration, reporting, accounting and taxation.

GloDerWorks recently took over the managment of the Leasing World site.