Frisco, TX – August 15, 2016 – Wintrust Commercial Finance (WCF), part of Wintrust Financial, announced that Olayinka “Ola” Sanusi and Ken Andreozzi joined the division’s direct originations group. Ola will be located in San Francisco focusing on direct originations in the west region. Ken will be located in Philadelphia. Both will join the national team led by WCF Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Joe Thompson. “We are rounding out our core direct team. Ola brings tremendous energy and very solid technical skills, which will be invaluable in building out our West Coast presence,” said Thompson. “I have known Ken for over 20 years. His approach to customers and transactions fits well with our business model. He understands our target market and knows how to structure transactions that meet both our customer needs as well as WCF lending criteria.” Sanusi brings 10 years of commercial finance experience, global management, auditing and IT experience to WCF, including positions at GE Capital and JP Morgan Chase. Before joining the team, he was vice president – relationship manager at JP Morgan Chase covering the northern California market. Andreozzi has had a distinguished career with Finova, Merrill Lynch Capital, as well as Peoples Capital, GE Capital, and Transamerica. “Anyone who has built a team knows how demanding and rewarding it can be,” Thompson went on to say. “With a couple other forthcoming announcements, I am happy to say we are fully staffed in our direct origination platform for this year. Our plan is to finish the year strong and continue our momentum going into 2017.”
About Wintrust Financial Wintrust is a financial holding company with more than $24 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.