Hafner elected

Mark A. Hafner of Westlake Village has been elected vice president of finance for 2007 at the Commercial Finance Association, a trade organization of the assetbased financial services industry.

Hafner is the president and CEO of Celtic Capital Corp. of Santa Monica, a small finance company. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in business economics from the University of California Santa Barbara. Hafner joined Celtic, which had been founded by his father, Bron Hafner, in 1985 as its office manager.

He is past president and chairman of the Commerical Finance Association's chapter in Los Angeles and past president of its audit group.