Scott Scharman founded Avid Acceptance and oversees all functions of the company. Scott has significant experience in finance and equipment leasing, serving as Chief Executive Officer of AvTech Capital, LLC, and previously as Vice-President of Highline Capital Corporation and various positions at UniCapital Corporation. Scott earned a B.S. in Business Management from Utah Valley University and an MBA from Westminster College.

Chris Scharman is CEO of Avid Acceptance and has represented the company as General Counsel since its inception. Chris graduated from the University of Utah in 1994 with a BA in Middle Eastern Studies and Modern Hebrew. He earned his law degree from Vanderbilt Law School in 2002, where he also served on the Law Review. Chris began his legal practice at Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Manner, P.C., in Nashville, Tennessee and later joined the corporate securities practice group of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, in its Salt Lake City, Utah office. In 2007, Chris went on to found Vantus Law Group, P.C., a boutique business law firm specializing in corporate transactions and complex commercial litigation, which was subsequently acquired by Michael Best & Friedrich LLP. Throughout his career, Chris has specialized in mergers and acquisitions, state and federal securities, capital structure and commercial finance. Chris has traveled extensively, living and working for several years in Taiwan, Israel, Russia and China, and has studied Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Hebrew.

Chris Emery has over 37 years of experience in the equipment leasing industry. Before starting at Avid Acceptance, Chris was a controller for Matrix Funding Corporation from 1988 to 1998. In 1998, Matrix was acquired by Unicapital Corporation where Chris was promoted to Vice President of Finance. In 2006, he moved to Applied Financial and helped with the sale of the leasing division to Marquette Companies and was promoted to CFO of Marquette Equipment Leasing. In 2012, Chris helped with the sale of Marquette Equipment Leasing to Pacific Western Bank and was CFO of Pacific Western Equipment Finance. In 2015, Chris helped with the sale of Pacific Western Equipment Finance to Bank of the Internet. Chris was CFO of Bank of the Internet Equipment Leasing until 2017. In 2017, he went to Avtech Capital as COO and moved to President in 2022. He was appointed CFO of Avid Acceptance in September 2025.