Jeffry Pfeffer

Jeff Pfeffer co-founded CapX Partners in 1999 (with partner Jim Hallene) and served for roughly two decades as its Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer. CapX was built as a mid-ticket, alternative-debt fund providing equipment lease financing, senior loans, and secured mezzanine capital to private-equity- and venture-capital-backed companies in the middle market. Pfeffer led the firm's investment strategy, sales team, and investment committee, and oversaw new business development, fundraising, portfolio administration, and the firm's SBA/SBIC relationships. Over his tenure he and his partners raised more than $400 million across four funds and originated over $700 million in assets under management, and he helped develop a new investment strategy for the SBIC Debenture Program.

In October 2017, Chicago-based CapX Partners joined the publicly traded Accord Financial Corp. family (via a phased transaction, with CapX assets rolling into a newly formed Accord CapX LLC). CapX later fully rebranded as Accord Equipment Finance, and Pfeffer served as president of Accord Equipment Finance for about four years, where he built out the firm's syndication platform. Earlier in his career he also held the title of President at Gibraltar Equipment Finance. In total he brings roughly 35 years of experience founding and running equipment leasing and specialty finance companies.

In July 2024, CSC Leasing Company appointed Pfeffer as Executive Director. In that role he acts as an internal advisor to senior leadership across CSC's capital markets and finance units and contributes to business development and origination, based in Chicago.

Pfeffer studied at DePaul University's Driehaus College of Business and at Brandeis University. He is active in the Chicago civic and finance community: he has served on the board of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center since 2008 (including as Board Chair from 2018–2020), and has held board/officer roles with the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Chicago and the Midwest region of the National Association of SBICs (NASBIC).

• Provides debt, not equity — equipment leases, senior secured loans, and mezzanine capital — to growth-stage, sponsor-backed middle-market companies; think of him as a venture-debt / equipment-finance lender rather than a seed-stage angel.
• Typical financings run $2M–$20M (as low as ~$500K under Accord), focused on revenue-producing fixed assets.
• Targets companies "in a growth mode or in need of liquidity," financing plant expansions, new manufacturing lines, new distribution channels, and traditional or non-traditional equipment purchases.
• Stated aim, in his own words, is "delivering superior risk-adjusted returns to CapX's private investors."
• Structures are deliberately flexible and cash-flow-aware — e.g., the Unitas Global lease line let the borrower draw over a six-month window and begin paying as new-customer revenue came online.
• Favored sectors: manufacturing, distribution, technology, energy, and healthcare, with additional activity in aerospace, consumer products, food & beverage, and transportation.