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Meridian OneCap Announces New VP of Operations & Transformation


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Meridian OneCap Announces New VP of Operations & Transformation

 

BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, NOV. 2, 2022--Meridian OneCap announced today that Nahid Zamir has joined the executive leadership team as the Vice President of Operations & Transformation to lead organization-wide transformation plans. She was formerly with CIT Bank’s Business Capital Equipment Finance Division.

Zamir will collaborate across all operations to optimize business processes to ensure alignment with IT architecture, process design, and digital delivery.

 

Last year Meridian OneCap launched a multi-year initiative, Project BOOST, to transform systems and processes. Recognized this year by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Association (ELFA), Meridian OneCap won the ELFA Operations & Technology Excellence Award for Project BOOST. 

 

“I am very excited to be part of this winning team,” Zamir said. “I look forward to leveraging my experience and expertise to support the achievement of various strategic initiatives and ultimately providing a superior level of services to meet our clients’ needs.”

 

It was also announced that Michael LaPierre, a key leader of Project BOOST, will assume a new title: Vice President of Finance & Strategy. He has been with Meridian OneCap since 2016 and presented at the 2022 ELFA Convention in October on how the association operations award was earned.

 

Hugh Swandel, President, Meridian OneCap, said the appointment of Zamir and the new focus for LaPierre are enhancements to the executive team and part of a larger goal to become the industry leader in customer service and client satisfaction.

  

With 27 years of experience in commercial leasing and finance, Zamir led CIT Bank projects aimed at transforming front-end systems and processes. She also led teams that supported originations, onboarding, deal structuring and booking, as well as ongoing program management. In addition, she had leadership roles in capital markets activities including syndication deal closing and end-to-end management of a lender finance portfolio. In 2020 she was featured in the Monitor as one of the “Top Women in Leasing.”

 

Zamir joined CIT then known as Newcourt Credit Group in 1995 and held various roles with increasing responsibility in Canada and the U.S., lastly as Senior Vice President of Sales Operations. She holds a B.A. degree from the University of Waterloo in Ontario and is a Chartered Professional Accountant.  

 

Based in Toronto, Zamir is committed to philanthropic work and has served on the boards of two organizations, Developments in Literacy and Homes First. 

 

  
We respectfully acknowledge that the land on which we operate on is the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples - Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam Kwikwetlem, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We are grateful for their care of these lands and waters. From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Métis, and First Nations people across Turtle Island. Acknowledging reminds us of our commitment and responsibility in improving relationships between nations and, to improving our own understanding of local Indigenous peoples and their cultures. 
 
Meridian OneCap Credit Corp. is one of Canada’s leading providers of commercial equipment finance and leasing solutions for equipment dealers and end users. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Meridian (Canada’s second largest credit union), Meridian OneCap offers flexible finance programs for manufacturers, distributors, and dealers. 


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