Neil Wessan

Neil Wessan serves as Managing Director and Group Head of CIT Capital Markets. He manages teams of market professionals who structure, price, underwrite and distribute financing packages for all of CIT’s product lines. Prior to CIT, Wessan served as Head of Capital Markets for Gleacher & Company. Before this, he was a Founding Principal at Halsey Lane Holdings, and served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Jefferies & Company’s Leveraged Loan Capital Markets and Syndications Group. Earlier he held senior level positions with various financial institutions, including CIBC World Markets, ING Barings and Bankers Trust, over the course of his 28-year career. He received a BSE degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.