Auto Finance News is pleased to announce that Jeff Gluntz, director of structured finance at Park National Bank, will join a session on commercial financing during the inaugural Auto Finance Capital Summit, taking place May 11-12 at JW Marriott in Nashville, Tenn. 

Gluntz will join the session “Commercial financing and capital optimization” at 11:15 a.m. local time on May 11.  

View the full event agenda. 

Gluntz has more than two decades of experience in commercial lending and specialty finance. He was vice president and portfolio manager for Huntington Bank before joining Park National in 2008. His career also includes time supporting state of Ohio commercial financing programs and five years in Bank One’s structured finance group underwriting and managing lines of credit for U.S. companies.  

Park National was the 73rd-largest auto lender by outstandings at yearend 2024 with an auto portfolio of $1.9 billion, according to the latest Big Wheels rankings data. 

Joining Gluntz on the panel are: 

• Curtis Ash, chief financial officer at Rizz Lending; and  

• Robert Smith, managing director at Stifel. 

The session will touch on: 

• Lender access to diversified funding, including warehouse, floorplan and revolving facilities; 

• Term versus revolver structures; 

• Performance-based pricing and covenant trends; and 

• Compliance impacts on treasury operations 

Auto Finance Capital Summit will provide in-depth conversations on trends across capital markets. Attendees will tap into key information to form strategies around capital stress testing, fraud mitigation, risk-based pricing and building successful treasury risk frameworks through networking opportunities.  

Learn more about Auto Finance Capital Summit and register here.