Wintrust Commercial Finance adds de la Houssaye to build direct originations platform

Frisco, TX – April 14, 2016 – Wintrust Commercial Finance (WCF) announced that Brian de la Houssaye has joined the company’s direct originations group, as senior vice president – business development. Brian will be located in WCF’s Frisco headquarters, focusing on direct originations in the south central region and will join the national team led by Executive Vice President and COO Joe Thompson.

“I am very happy that Brian has joined our team,” said Thompson. “He has excelled in every role throughout his career. I cannot think of an industry that Brian has not financed. His energy is infectious. Having worked with him previously, I know Brian will do a great job and be a model of how we want to grow our direct salesforce.”

De la Houssaye brings 36 years of commercial finance experience to WCF, including positions at Cargill, Verizon, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase. Before joining the team, he was vice president – direct originations at AIG Investments.

Thompson went on to explain: “It’s a very exciting time for our business and customers. Wintrust has provided everything we need to be a best-in-class commercial asset finance business. We are off to a tremendous start. It all begins with having the best people and I’m proud of this team.”

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