Textainer Announces New Appointments
Bermuda-headquarted Textainer Group Holdings Limited, the world’s largest lessor of intermodal containers based on fleet size, today [Dec.16] announced that it has appointed Hilliard C. Terry, III as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Daniel W. Cohen as Vice President and General Counsel.
“We are very excited to have Hilliard and Dan join our leadership team,” said Philip K. Brewer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Textainer. “Hilliard brings an ideal blend of extensive public company treasury and financing expertise, coupled with significant international experience.
“Dan combines the practical experience of a corporate counsel and the insight of having worked on many mergers and acquisitions and securitization transactions at leading law firms.
“Their skills will enable Textainer to build on our success as the world’s largest container lessor, delivering industry-leading service for our customers and solid returns for our stockholders.”
Mr. Terry was most recently Vice President and Treasurer and formerly the head of Investor Relations at Agilent Technologies, Inc., where he has worked since the company’s spin-off from Hewlett-Packard Company. B
efore joining Agilent, he worked in marketing and investor relations for HP’s VeriFone subsidiary.
Mr. Terry has also held positions in investor relations and investment banking with Kenetech Corporation and Goldman, Sachs & Co., respectively. He holds an MBA from Golden Gate University and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.
Mr. Cohen was previously with Sybase, Inc. for six years where he served as Corporate Counsel.
Before joining Sybase, he practiced corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions law with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto and practiced finance and securitisation law with Mayer Brown in Chicago and Sidley Austin LLP in London. Mr. Cohen holds a JD from Northwestern University and a BS with honors from the University of Illinois.
He is a member of the California Bar and previously passed the CPA exam.
Mr. Terry’s appointment will be effective in January while Mr. Cohen’s appointment was effective in September. Ernest Furtado, who had been serving as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer will continue to serve as the company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting and Compliance Officer.
With offices in Century House in Hamilton, Textainer began operations in 1979 and today has a total of more than 1.6 million containers, representing more than 2.4 million TEU, in our owned and managed fleet.
