Auto Finance News is pleased to announce that Jason Person, chief financial officer at SAFCO, will join a discussion on investor sentiment and risk-based pricing at the inaugural Auto Finance Capital Summit, taking place May 11-12 at JW Marriott in Nashville, Tenn. 

Person will speak on the panel, “The investor perspective — pricing risk in 2026,” on Monday, May 11, at 11:45 a.m. CT.  

View the full event agenda. 

Jason Person

Person became CFO at the auto lender in July 2023. Prior to his time at SAFCO, Person served as vice president and treasurer at consumer finance firm Regional Management Corp., director of capital markets and treasury at Global Lending Services and assistant vice president for finance at Exeter Finance. 

At the summit, he will join a discussion with the following industry leaders: 

• Ines Beato, associate managing director and sector lead at Morningstar DBRS; 

• Eugene Belostotsky, managing director of ABS and mortgage credit strategy at Citi; and 

• Garrett Connor, finance manager at Nextgear Capital.  

The panelists will discuss: 

• Risk-based pricing; 

• Lessons from Tricolor; 

• Investor appetite for bespoke and illiquid deals; and 

• Spreads vs. corporates and relative value discussion. 

SAFCO’s managed portfolio sat at $352.1 million as of Dec. 31, 2024, according to an April 25, 2025, presale report from S&P Global of the lender’s most recent auto asset-backed securitization deal.  

Auto Finance Capital Summit will provide a deep look at trends across funding, securitization and investment in the sector. Through networking opportunities, presentations and panel discussions, attendees will tap into key information to form strategies around capital stress testing, fraud mitigation, risk-based pricing and building successful treasury risk frameworks. 

Learn more about Auto Finance Capital Summit and register here by March 27 for early-bird pricing.