The Team
Independent advisory partners and leasing consultants to the Equipment Finance community since 2005
Invigors has evolved over time to now have over 25 senior professionals living and working across EMEA and servicing a client base spanning lessors, OEMs, system integrators, software houses, service companies, aggregators & channel partners.
Executive Directors
Paul Johnson-Ferguson
A chartered accountant and linguist, Paul held various senior positions in financial services including at Lehman Brothers and GE Capital. Here, he was CFO of the French leasing business, ran strategic business projects across Europe and gained his Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Paul set up the French arm of Invigors in 2010 and advises clients across EMEA on operational excellence, market intelligence, supporting M&A activity, financial diagnostics of business and offering systems advisory support.
Nick Feasey
Nick has extensive senior international experience within the asset finance industry, in vendor finance, captive finance, technology financing and ‘as-a-service’ areas. He spent a short time at a UK broker and bank owned lessor, before spending 10 years with CIT on the Dell Financial Services (DFS) program in several roles in Europe, the last role at DFS was running Asia. He then returned to Europe and spent 11 years at Lenovo, where he set up Lenovo Financial services in EMEA and Asia Pacific and subsequently given additional responsibility for the global development and rollout of Device as a Service (DaaS) and Pay-per-use models.
Kieran O’Brien
Kieran qualified as chartered accountant with PWC and then joined the Smurfit Group in their leasing /banking division acting chief accountant with Smurfit Paribas Bank. He then moved to Woodchester where he held several finance roles including acting as CFO in their Portugal leasing operations. He returned to Dublin after 3 year and acted in senior leasing operations roles within Woodchester, which was now part of GE Capital. Thereafter Kieran spent 16 years with Cisco Capital as EMEA Operations Director and board member of their EMEA capital entity boards.
Patrick Gouin
Patrick's working life started in strategic consulting advising Alcatel-Lucent's board on operational M&A activities. He then joined Digital Equipment Corporation where he handled different MD positions including heading the European Leasing and Remarketing activities. He moved to DLL (Rabo Bank) as European General Manager for Tech Finance and most recently was Global Head of Strategy and Business Optimization at Societe Generale Equipment Finance as well as a member of their Managment Committee . He is an Ambassador of the European Leasing Industry and regularly speaks at industry events including Lease Europe, Captive Forum, Leasing Life and the ELFA.
Ian Robertson
Formerly Global Head of Asset Management and Remarketing at DLL, Ian brings vast experience of all aspects of asset management and remarketing, across a broad spectrum of collaterals. Prior to DLL, Ian worked in the leasing industry for Dell Financial Services, CIT and Siemens Financial Services and is highly experienced in all aspects of vendor and direct leasing. Ian is an industry leader capable of bridging between high level business strategy and the practicalities of systems, risk management, information management, process development, organisational delivery. Originally a strategic business consultant he regularly supports OEMs and vendor finance companies in developing their business and financing strategies.
François-Xavier Roth
Francois has more than two decades of experience specialising in operations, digital transformation, business development, IT, cybersecurity, and risk management. With a robust background in equipment finance and financial services operations, he has held various international management positions in regions like Europe, Middle East, and Asia, including Global roles such as Global Audit Director at Siemens Financial Services and CIO & CISO for Siemens AG in China. His expertise ranges from audit and data analytics to compliance program setup in response to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Francois's comprehensive industry knowledge makes him an invaluable asset in the realms of IoT and Cybersecurity.