CIT Group, a provider of financing to small businesses and middle market companies, has opened a new office Washington, DC.
The group also appointed Lon Goldstein as senior vice president and director of Government Relations, reporting to Margaret Tutwiler, executive vice president and head of Communications & Government Relations.
With over 15 years of political and legislative experience, Goldstein will be responsible for CIT’s public policy initiatives and to lead the office.
Prior to CIT, Goldstein served as vice president, Government Relations at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association.
The Government Relations group also includes Karl Haddeland, vice president, and Annette Valenzuela, assistant vice president.
Haddeland was most recently a professional staff member for chairman Barney Frank and Subcommittee chairman Luis Gutierrez on the House Committee on financial services.
Valenzuela worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Mike Crapo and then as a technical writer for the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco. She joined the Merrill Lynch & Co Government Relations office in 2004.
CIT is a bank holding company with more than $35bn in finance and leasing assets. It provides financing and leasing capital to its more than one million small business and middle market clients and their customers across more than 30 industries.
