Neal Harm is the recently announced Secretary General of FCI, the Global Representative Body for Factoring and Financing of Open Account Domestic and International Trade Receivables. Neal previously served as Chief Operating Officer Fintainium. Beforehand he was Managing Director, CIT Commercial Services overseeing strategy, business development and project management. Neal previously worked for BB&T, where he served in a variety of positions including Director of International Banking Services, President of BB&T's Factoring Division, and Chief Operating Officer of the company's Commercial Finance business. Neal applied his considerable organisational skills to appropriately manage and structure the breadth of the Commercial Finance operations across the ABL, Factoring, and Supply Chain Finance operating platforms. He has tremendous experience in both Domestic Factoring and International Factoring. Neal has also previously worked in various positions in factoring with GMAC Commercial Finance and Bank of America. Neal served as a member of the FCI Business and IT Committee (ComCom) from 2006-2012 and as its chairman from 2008-2012. He helped lead the first conversion of the Edifactoring platform to our current host Centric back in 2009. He also served the FCI Executive Committee from 2013 until 2017 including a mandate as Vice Chairman.