AMONG THE MEMBERS

Bibby Financial Services: Debra Vanderhoff has joined Bibby's Floridabased sales team as business development officer. She will report directly to Marcus Ferrari, national sales director. Vanderhoff brings over 20 years of financial services experience to her role. Most recently she served as VP, healthcare financing and operations for Practice Pros, a healthcare management consultancy. In this role, she led all startup operations for new medical practices and was also responsible for the turnaround of numerous struggling group medical practices. She increased both cash flow and revenue an average of 113% in less than six moths. Prior to Practice Pros, Vanderhoff held positions in sales, business development, and executive management in various industries. Additionally, as an entrepreneur, she cofounded an online startup company that grew to become a national brand and the third largest in its market sector.

Capital One Bank: Joseph Nastri has been appointed as market executive to its middle-market lending team in New York. In his new role, Nastri will be responsible for managing lending and commercial banking services for the region's middle-market customers. He will report directly to Ellen Marshall, regional executive for New York, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut/Westchester Middle Market Commercial Banking.

Prior to joining Capital One Bank, Nastri served as division manager of JPMorgan Chase'sNortheast Middle Market Apparel Group. Nastri previously held a number of commercial banking positions, covering both core and specialty segments in the middle market at Bank of America and its predecessor banks. Nastri is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a master's of business administration with a focus in finance from the American International College.

MarcyDean has been appointed as senior vice president to Capital One Bank's middle-market lending team in New York. In her new role, Dean will provide lending and commercial banking services to the region's middlemarket customers.

Prior to joining Capital One Bank, Dean served as a director at CIT for nine years, where she focused on providing cash flow-based, leveraged lending solutions to information services, technology, and software businesses.

Dean holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Denison University, and has a master's of business administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

CIT Group Inc.: Israel "Izzy" Kaufman has been appointed as executive vice president, treasurer effective immediately. He will report directly to chief financial officer Scott T. Parker.

Kaufman will be responsible for all functional areas of CIT's treasury group, including funding, asset/liability management, hedging, international treasury, cash management, capital management and rating agency relations.

Prior to CIT, Kaufman served as global treasurer of Geller & Company. Before this he held a number of senior positions at The Goldman Sachs Group, inc. including: treasurer, Goldman Sachs Bank USA; chief financial officer, Global Banking Group, and vice president, firmwide strategy. Prior to Goldman Sachs, he served as assistant treasurer of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. and was U.S. treasurer at Lehman Brothers. Prior to this, he spent more than 10 years at Goldman Sachs in its treasury and investment banking areas.

Cole Taylor Business Capital: Michael D. Sharkey, president of Cole Taylor Business Capital, was among a distinguished group participating in the California Commercial Finance Association's President's Panel on September 11, 2013, at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, CA.

The expert panel, consisting of some of the nation's top asset-based lending industry leaders, also included Henry Jordan, chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo Capital Finance, William Kosis, president and CEO of PNC Business Credit, and Jeff McLane, president of Bank of America Business Capital. The panel addressed key issues and perspectives in assetbased lending.

Sharkey joined Cole Taylor Bank in July 2008, as executive vice president responsible for the bank's asset-based lending group. He oversees a nationwide market with regional offices in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Dallas, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Crestmark:yames G. Farrell has been added as first vice president, midwest regional sales manager. He reports through Ray Morandell, national sales director, and will work as a part of Crestmark's growing East Division. He will maintain offices in Indianapolis, Indiana and Lansing, Ml and will be responsible for new loan origination in Indiana, Kentucky, and southern Ohio. Farrell is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, where he is a past board member for the Detroit Chapter, and a member of Association for Corporate Growth. He holds a B.A. in finance from Michigan State University.

Farrell has an extensive asset-based lending background, with more than 25 years of experience as a financial executive in the areas of capital formation and financing, turnaround management, and business development. Most recently, he worked at Huntington Bank as a business development officer for their ABL Group, serving the West Michigan and Indiana markets. Previously, he worked as a business development officer for Bank of America Business Capital, LaSalle Business Credit, and Crestmark Bank.

Scott C. Doyle has been appointed as vice president, account executive. He will report through Ray Zilke, first vice president - portfolio, and he will work as a part of Crestmark's growing Transportation Division located in Franklin, TN. Doyle joins Crestmark with more than 29 years of diverse experience in the finance industry. He holds a B.S. in finance from Louisiana Tech University and an MBA in finance from Dallas Baptist University.

Before coming to Crestmark, Doyle worked with Wells Fargo Capital Finance as a vice president, relationship manager where he was responsible for managing a large portfolio of factoring and asset-based loans. Prior to that, he worked with GE Capital as a field examiner, ABL account manager, and senior analyst; and has also worked with Navistar Financial Services, Amresco, and Caterpillar Financial Services.

Crestmark is pleased to announce their participation in the 2013 Challenge Detroit Program as a host company, and welcomes Challenge Detroit fellow Roy Yewah to their corporate office. Yewah will work with Crestmark four days a week, where he will assist in and learn various aspects of accounting, operations, field exam, underwriting and portfolio. Every Friday he will join the Challenge Detroit Fellows and work with nonprofits throughout the year to address regional challenges and opportunities, including multi-model transportation, homelessness, and community development.

Yewah hold a BA in economics and a minor in French from Kalamazoo College. An officer of the Kalamazoo Economics and Business Club, his financial background includes work in sales and account manager positions with Premium Retail Solutions and New York Life Insurance. He also worked as a student aide with the Eaton Tutoring Program in Kalamazoo Central High School which experienced a 50% decrease in the dropout rate.

Challenge Detroit is a new model for attracting and retaining talent to reinvigorate a great American post-industrial city by intersecting living, working, playing, giving and leading with an opportunity for 33 individuals of various skills and backgrounds to come together in an effort with area companies, nonprofits and cultural institutions.

First Business Capital Corp.: Zach Miller has been hired as a field examiner and Kayla Becker as a collateral analyst. Miller is responsible for conducting field examinations of existing and prospective clients. He joined First Business Capital Corp. in the summer of 2013 after working as a financial accountant for First Business Financial Services. Miller graduated from Edgewood College in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance, and is enrolled in the graduate program at Edgewood College.

Becker is responsible for working daily with existing clients on loan advances, collateral reporting, and other operational issues. Becker is a graduate of Madison College where she earned her associate's degree in accounting in 2013.

GE Capital, Corporate Finance: Kelly Shield has been appointed senior vice president-lending. She will be based in Irving, TX, and specialize in providing asset-based and cash flow financing solutions for mid-size businesses in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. "Kelly's background developing commercial financing solutions, combined with a keen understanding of capital markets products, makes her ideal for this role," said Bob McCarrick, chief commercial officer-lending at GE Capital, Corporate Finance. "She is client-focused and will bring great value to mid-size companies including access to GE resources."

Shield joins GE Capital with more than 17 years of corporate finance and banking experience. She began her career in real estate finance and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Texas.

GE Capital, Corporate Finance also announced that Olayinka (Ola) Sanusi has been appointed vice presidentequipment. He will be based in San Francisco, CA, and specialize in providing equipment financing solutions for businesses in northern California.

"Ola has a solid understanding of how to develop commercial equipment loan and lease solutions for middle-market companies to help meet their needs," said Eric Dusch, chief commercial officer-equipment at GE Capital, Corporate Finance. "He brings an energy and dedication to every company he works with and establishes strong long-term relationships."

Sanusi has been with GE for more than seven years, most recently providing equipment-financing solutions to mid-size companies in the southeast U.S. His previous roles at GE include internal financial auditing of industrial and financial services businesses in Europe, Asia, South America and the U.S. He has a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Graystone Capital has announced that it is a recipient of the INC 500/500 fastest growing privately held companies in the United States for 2013. Graystone Capital is delighted and honored to be listed as one of the 5,000 companies in the U.S. as well as #43 in the San Jose/Silicon Valley metropolitan area.

According to the Inc.'s statistical information, median growth rate of 2013 Inc. 500/5000 companies was a remarkable 142%. The companies on the 2013 list report having created more than 520,000 jobs in the past three years and the combined revenue among the honorées reached $241 billion.

Keltic Financial Services: J. Michael Saul has been appointed to Keltic's sales team as vice president and Northeast regional manager. He will be focused on new business generation primarily in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.

Saul joins Keltic with more than 25 years of banking, business and consulting and economic development experience. He previously held positions with Bank of Boston, Main Street Solution, LLC, and Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, among others. During his career with the Bank of Boston, he served as a senior credit officer for a multi-billion dollar loan portfolio including special assets and as a lending executive for several specialized high risk divisions. In the business sector he led a successful turnaround of a privately held company, which went on to become an industry leader. In economic development he served as chair and investment committee member of Rhode Island's seed stage venture fund and deputy director of a quasi-public entity.

Saul serves on the Board of Advisors</org> for the Tech Sandbox, is a member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), XPX Boston Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Boston and the Commercial Finance Association (CFA) New England Chapter.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Providence College and has participated in executive management programs at University of Virginia'sDarden School of Business.

Monroe Capital LLC: Patrick White and Mark Solovy have joined the firm as managing directors and will lead the firm's national technology practice. White will be based in the newly established San Francisco office.

Solovy will be responsible for leading Monroe Capital's national technology lending efforts in private equity and venture capital-sponsored and non-sponsored transactions. Both have extensive experience financing middle-market companies in the technology sector. Prior to Monroe, Solovy was a managing director at Hercules Technology Growth Capital in the firm's Palo Alto and Chicago offices. He has over 15 years of private equity, venture capital, and investment banking experience in the technology industry. He earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his B.S. in business administration from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Prior to Monroe, White was a principal at H.I.G. WhiteHorse where he was responsible for its direct lending activities in the western United States. White has over 15 years of experience in technology finance, middle-market finance and investment banking. His prior experience includes roles in principal finance and investment banking at American Capital, Wells Fargo Foot- hill and Houlihan Lokey. White earned his B.A. in economics from Washington and Lee University.

Nations Equipment Finance, LLC (NEF): Nick Payne has joined the company as vice president of business development. In this role, Payne will be responsible for NEF's lease and loan origination activities in the midwestern United States.

Payne has over five years' experience in the finance industry. His background includes pricing and structuring, and sales. Payne has held positions with FGI Finance as assistant vice president, Van Eck Global as institutional sales associate and Morgan Stanley PWM as an investment associate.

Salus Capital Partners: Kyle C. Shonak was named a winner for the Dealmaker Category of the 40 Under 40 M&A Advisor Recognition Awards on July 24 Shonak is a senior vice president, manager of Special Opportunities at Salus Capital Partners. He focused on recognizing and mitigating risks associated with deals being restructured, in bankruptcy, or are criticized assets while identifying and reacting to the needs of the borrowers. Prior to joining Salus, Shonak was a vice president, Special Assets, at Textron Financial where he was the officer in charge of developing legal and business strategy in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, receivership and out-of-court restructurings, as well as acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Prior to Textron, he held positions in underwriting at TD Bank and UPS Capital. He also previously owned and managed two family businesses, PFXC, LLC dba Alibis and Celtic Pub, Inc. Shonak holds a B.B.A. in finance from the University of MassachusettsAmherst. Shonak has been chosen for his accomplishments and expertise from a pool of international nominees by an independent judging panel of distinguished business leaders.

TD Bank: Vicki A. Woodard has been named vice president, senior loan officer in New England Healthcare Finance in Boston. She is responsible for growing and managing a portfolio of highly valued healthcare clients throughout Massachusetts.

Woodard has 22 years of experience in healthcare lending and finance. Prior to joining TD Bank, she served as market lender in Healthcare & Senior Living Finance at Sovereign Bank/ Banco Santander and a senior client manager in Healthcare & Institutions at Bank of America, both in Boston.

Woodard received an MBA in 1990 from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and an undergraduate degree in 1985 from Smith College in Northampton, MA.