MarCap hires new VP of imaging sales

MarCap, a healthcare financing company, has named Mark Idzerda as vice president of sales-imaging, which is the company's largest business segment. In his new role, Idzerda is in charge of developing the imaging financing business for the company.

Previously Idzerda served as director of the Healthcare Financial Group at CapitalSource Inc. He also has experience as an entrepreneur and started a group of CT imaging centers, Idzerda also spent nearly 10 years at DVI Financial Services in a variety of management and sales management positions, such as managing director-Europe, managing director-Latin America as well as president of DVI Business Credit Corp.

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