Frisco, TX – January 19, 2016 – Wintrust Commercial Finance (WCF) announced that Stephen C. Cusick has joined the company’s capital markets group, as senior vice president. Cusick will be located in WCF’s Los Angeles office and will focus on indirect originations. He joins a national team led by WCF Senior Vice President Tom Forbes who heads up the capital markets group.
“Wintrust Commercial Finance is truly excited to bring Steve’s depth and variety of experience to our business,” said Forbes. “Steve is an industry veteran with tremendous capital markets expertise in a range of industries, including aircraft, transportation, marine, energy and electronics.”
WCF also announced that, with the help of the expanded WCF team throughout the past year, it has added $220MM of assets since its inception in April 2015.
“2015 was truly a remarkable year for Wintrust Commercial Finance,” said WCF President and CEO Kirk Phillips. “We were able to successfully launch the business early in the year, hire a solid core team, and execute on over $220 million in profitable asset generation for the company. We are excited about what we are building here at Wintrust and adding solid new members like Steve to the mix will help us to continue to meet our goals in the future.”
Cusick brings 30 years of experience to WCF. Before joining the company, he held the role of vice president at Capital One Equipment Finance and, immediately prior to that, senior vice president - corporate finance for GE Capital Corporation’s Capital Markets Group.
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:
Thomas G. Forbes,
Senior Vice President, Capital Markets – Wintrust Commercial Finance
469-777-5649