Who We Help
Financing is the key to business growth. Let us help you find your solution
Manufacturers & Exporters
Make financing part of your global sales and marketing strategy.
Dealers, Importers & Buyers
Get financing on the most competitive terms for your industrial purchases.
Investors & Project Developers
Leverage your investment to obtain the best in debt and mezzanine finance.
What We Do
Financial programs and transaction support worldwide
Retail Finance
We create captive finance programs for exporters of goods and services in global markets, integrating finance into the sales process, which gives exporters more value to offer their buyers abroad.
Project Finance
Our diversified team supports projects developers to leverage their investment to attract co-investment and long-term debt finance on the best terms. Our portfolio of projects currently is at $4.7 billion.
Dealer Support
We support dealers to find new suppliers, obtain credit lines, use export finance, and create retail finance solutions. We have over 2,500 manufacturer contacts worldwide for nearly all solutions.
Raise Equity
Through our network of investor clients and financial institutions worldwide, we have what it takes to find venture capital, mezzanine, institutional, and strategic investors for your project.
Equipment Tenders
We level the playing field when it comes to financial offers from equipment suppliers and banks. Our deep knowledge of retail & export finance compels manufacturers, banks and dealers to offer the best financing terms for your CAPEX purchase or project.
Find Dealers
Through our network of regional directors covering over 100 markets and Growing 44 cities in their AOR, as well as our network of banks, leasing companies and dealers around the world, we can be the foundation for helping your business expand its distribution footprint worldwide.
OMAHA - WASHINGTON DC - DALLAS - LONDON - SPRINGFIELD - KYIV - VIENNA - ZURICH - GENEVA - LUXEMBOURG - KARACHI - BERLIN - HO CHI MINH CITY - LUSAKA - SHANGHAI - BUENOS AIRES - EDMONTON - TOKYO - PRAGUE - BUCHAREST - JOHANNESBURG - X'IAN - SHIZUOKA - KIGALI - CAIRO - BOGOTÁ - ABIDJAN - ROME - BAKU - DUBAI - SEOUL - DAKAR - KHARTOUM - WARSAW - LAGOS - SOFIA - ISTANBUL - ALMATY - AMSTERDAM - CASABLANCA - HARARE - KAMPALA
OVER 300 FINANCIAL PARTNERS & REPRESENTATIVES IN OVER 40 CITIES COVERING MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES ACROSS
ITF is a US-based, global finance and market development company, and was founded in 2009 by Jeffrey B. Kamins.
Jeffrey has an MBA/MIM from Thunderbird, School of Global Management (#1 ranking in international business by Wall Street Journal for nearly 20 years). In 2009, Jeffrey founded ITF to support manufacturers and exporters in the US grow international sales by integrating financing solutions into their export sales and distribution process, in order to both mitigate risk of non-payment and to substantially grow international business making it more predictable and systematic. With Jeffrey’s experience in project finance, and attracting debt and equity finance to mainly emerging market projects, ITF also today helps project developers and investors to realize financing of their own projects by tapping both the expertise of the core members of ITF and utilizing a vast global network that ITF has now grown to.
Jeffrey has over has 25 years of experience in international sales and financing of equipment and projects including US Department of Commerce ITF BISNIS program, which helped to support over $1 billion in US trade and investment to the CIS countries (where he began to learn and today still is a proficient Russian speaker); CIS Senior Manager handling project finance and trading at Germany energy conglomerate, RWE, AG (OTCMKTS: RWNFF); Director of International Markets, Valley Irrigation (Valmont Industries (NYSE: VMI); and AGCO (NYSE: AGCO) Director of Finance CEE and Eurasia Region, covering 30+ markets for AGCO for all key account customer project finance, dealer wholesale finance and retail finance programs to support AGCO-branded equipment sales.
ITF TODAY Today, ITF has grown its global team to having directors in 44 cities covering over 100 markets, with a network exceeding 300 financial institutions including Export Credit Agencies, private credit insurers, development banks, asset-based financing providers such as leasing companies and local banks, hedge funds, family houses, merger & acquisition firms, corporate restructuring firms, trade finance banks, IFRS auditors, wealth managers of high networth individuals, factoring and forfeiting. The company’s mission is to bring maximum value to its customers, whether they are suppliers of equipment or investors and project developers who need CAPEX financing solutions or additional equity to achieve their targets. Few companies can match what ITF has in its range and abundance of contacts, experience in multidisciplinary financing for international projects and transactions, as well as its relations with manufacturers of equipment and capability to support expansion on a global scale.
- OUR MISSION -
TO TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES BRINGING PEOPLE, IDEAS, EQUIPMENT AND MONEY TOGETHER.
Jeffrey B. Kamins, Founder & CEO of ITF
Our Global Team
We are diversity, experience and reach, all enabling our customers to seize truly global opportunities.
Oceania
Anthony Raftopol
Legal Counsel and Vice President International Development
Dubai, UAE
Philip H. de Leon
Vice President, Government Affairs
Washington, DC
John Crockett
Real Estate and Equity Investment, Vice President
Cyprus, Larnaca
Bah Aghanguh Armstrong
Director, Business Development
Africa
Tehmina Soomro
International Account Management, Director
Karachi, Pakistan
Thomas Martin
International Account Management
Dallas, USA
Eli Westerman
International Account Management
Springfield, USA
Trey Riley
International Account Management
Springfield, USA
Akossiwa Victoire Toffa
Administrative Assistant - Global Accounts
Togo, Lomé
Saira Bashir
Relationship Manager
Islamabad, Pakistan
Europe
Heiner Sprunk
Director - Northern Europe
Berlin, Germany
Mykola Kovalski
Representative
Ukraine
Marco Torazza
Switzerland, Director
Zurich, Switzerland
Klaus Holzinger
Director - Global Agriculture Infrastructure Projects
Vienna, Austria
John Murray
Director - Southern Europe
Switzerland, Geneva
Miroslav Tym
Prague, Director
Czech Republic
Asia
Dr. Robert Connolly
Director - SE Asia
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Levent Hatay
Director - Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey
Youngjin Lee
Director – South Korea
Seoul, South Korea
Bakhtiyar Mamedov
Director - Middle East & Caucasus
Baku, Azerbaijan
Eswari Kalugasalam
Director - Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Omaha, USA
Dr. Wendy Guo
Director - Hong Kong Arena
Hong Kong
Linda Lu
Director
China, Shanghai
North and South America
Andrew Barker
Director - Latin America
Dallas, USA
Adriano Mayer
Director - Brazil
Brazil, Panambi
Juan Carlos Lopez G
Director - Colombia
Colombia, Bogotá
Ruben Dicun
Director - Argentina
Argentina, Junin
Antonio Bada
Director - Mexico
Mexico, Mexico Сity
Africa
Burt Louw
Agriculture Engineering and Construction Partner
Johannesburg, South Africa
Muyiwa Omololu
Rwanda & All Africa Oil & Gas Lagos, Director - Nigeria
Rwanda, Kigali
Matilda Abena Otoo
Director - Ghana
Ghana, Accra
Mike Townsend
Director - East Africa
Kenya, Nairobi
Kolotyolo Yeo
Abidjan, USA, TX, Ivory Coast Dallas, Director
Ivory Coast
Ossama Yousef
Director - Egypt
Egypt, Cairo
Aiden Mhere
Director - Africa (SADC Region)
Pretoria, South Africa
Our Experience & Network
Some of the companies we have helped
Our Experience & Network
Some of the 300 Financial Institutions with whom we work
Testimonials from our clients
Dominik Reus, General Manager, AGCO Mechanization, Africa
“The long-standing relationship that ITF and AGCO have had has been a staple to AGCO’s international growth. ITF’s professional work for AGCO in building retail finance partnership across Africa has created a new regional finance solution for us to use for projects/deals all over Africa using a mix of credit insurance, retail banks and development banks.”
Stephen Pickup, CEO
“ITF helped our company to develop a process that can be used again in the future to compare multiple forms of financing, supplier retail finance options, and offers from financial institutions. This methodology is valuable to our shareholders and management because it ensures competitiveness and transparency in our CAPEX procurement.”
André Granger, President
“ITF helped us to take a more proactive approach to financing the end-customer, knowing it is an essential part of securing international sales.”
Daragh Duffy
Owner and Project Development Director
Khmelnitskiy Bio Power Plant (KBPP), a $150 M straw-biomass power plant in Ukraine
“We would gladly recommend ITF to any investors or project developers considering to launch complex, large international projects requiring financing and equipment supplier selection. Their services are unmatched.”
Our Programs
Two dynamic solutions to grow international sales
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