Irv RothmanSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Prior to joining HP, Rothman was president and CEO of Compaq Financial Services (CFS). As leader of the company’s 1997 start-up, he built CFS into a global business across 43 countries, ultimately achieving $3.4 billion in assets, and $1 billion in revenue through joint ventures, acquisitions, and creating new operations. In 2002, Rothman cemented his Gutsball ethos with his influence on the HP/Compaq merger, a deal that married Compaq’s global reach with HP’s technological prowess and resulted in a state-of-the-art finance and leasing company now producing over $3.5 billion in annual revenue.

Irv Rothman did his undergraduate work at Rutgers and later received his MBA from Pepperdine. He is the author of Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy, an engaging and lively account of his career focusing on his work at financial services companies. As a speaker, Rothman’s consistent record of success and insider perspective make him the perfect guide to the art of building and growing a financial services company. He offers audiences a glimpse into his numerous accomplishments and provides takeaways they can apply to their own companies, whatever the industry.