PNC Business Credit appointed Karl Brier as senior vice president and business development officer to its senior secured financing team in the western region.

PNC Business Credit is the senior secured lending division of PNC Bank and its subsidiaries and is a part of The PNC Financial Services Group.

Based in Orange County,CA,  Brier is responsible for business development with private equity firms and middle-market companies, and originating asset-based and cash flow loans in southern California, Arizona and southern Nevada.

Brier joins PNC from Chase Commercial Bank, where he served as market executive.