Industry veteran Sven Jirgal joins international team at Invigors

Asset Finance consulting and services firm Invigors EMEA has bolstered its international leadership, with industry veteran Sven Jirgal joining the network. Over the course of his career Jirgal has led large, diverse teams, and managed large-scale transformations at manufacturers and banks including the optimization, divestiture and acquisition of portfolios and captives, and is a former director and chairman of the Captives Forum, an association of manufacturer-owned asset finance companies.

Jirgal said: “I am excited to join Invigors as senior advisor, where I want to help manufacturers, distributors and dealers define and optimize their financial and go-to-market strategies, in particular in light of the shift towards a consummation-based economy. I also plan to help funders connect to manufacturers and channels”

Jirgal began his career with Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard in Japan, before joining Hewlett-Packard as financial analyst in Geneva. After various roles he was at HP Financial Services when HP spun off its measurement business via an IPO and formed Agilent Technologies in 1999. In 2000, Jirgal subsequently managed the global sale and transfer of Agilent Financial Services from Agilent Technologies to CIT including portfolios and staff in 20+ countries.

After a period in the US as president of Agilent Financial Services at CIT Jirgal returned

to Geneva, joining GE Capital in Europe to manage all of GE Capital’s pan-European vendor programs, and then moved to the UK as commercial director of GE Capital’s UK equipment leasing, fleet, commercial and corporate lending businesses.

In 2010, Sven returned to Geneva and held various senior executive roles over his 10 years at Cisco.

Commenting on the announcement, the board of Invigors, said: “Sven is a proven leader in the global asset finance Industry, we are delighted Sven is joining the team and believe he will add strength and depth to our existing capabilities for customers here in EMEA”