Frisco, TX – January 19, 2016 – Wintrust Commercial Finance (WCF) announced that John Benoit has joined the company’s direct originations group, as vice president – business development. Benoit will be located in WCF’s South Louisiana office, focusing on direct originations in the gulf coast region and will join the national team led by Executive Vice President and COO Joe Thompson.

“Wintrust Commercial Finance is truly excited to bring John’s depth and variety of experience to our business,” said Thompson. “The build out of our direct platform is the next step in our growth and having worked with John twice previously, I know he will do a great job in helping us build on our momentum from 2015.”

Benoit brings 17 years of commercial finance experience to WCF. Before joining the team, he was vice president – business development at Regions Equipment Finance.

About Wintrust Financial

Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $22 billion in assets and a common stock traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The company provides traditional commercial and community banking services; asset-based lending; wealth management services; commercial insurance premium financing; mortgage origination; short-term accounts receivable financing; and certain administrative services, such as data processing of payrolls, billing and treasury management services. Wintrust was created as the alternative to the big banks, offering the solutions and services of larger competitors with the customer-focus and service that can only be found at a true community bank or local financial services company. The Wintrust Community Bank family has more than 150 community bank locations across the Chicagoland area, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.

For more information contact: Joseph F. Thompson Executive Vice President, C.O.O. – Wintrust Commercial Finance 469-777-5654