Monroe Capital announced Andrew Cozewith joined the firm as managing director in its Atlanta office and will lead the firm’s national media practice.

“We are very excited to add Andrew to the Monroe Capital team,” said Ted Koenig, president & CEO of Monroe Capital. “The expansion of our media sector is consistent with Monroe’s plans to broaden our services within the middle market. Andrew has had an extensive financial career working with middle-market companies across the media, information and communications industries. Andrew will be responsible for leading our media lending efforts in addition to originating cash-flow and enterprise value based loans in private equity sponsored and non-sponsored transactions.”

Prior to joining Monroe, Andrew worked at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, CIT Group and GE Capital, where he was responsible for transaction sourcing, structuring, deal execution and monitoring of portfolio companies.