Stacey Huddleston joined Austin Financial Services (AFS) as senior vice president of asset-based lending originations. In this role, Huddleston will continue to expand the company’s asset-based loan origination efforts throughout the Midwest region.

Huddleston brings with him 22 years of commercial finance and asset-based lending experience. Prior to joining AFS, he held leadership roles with Seacoast Business Funding and Prestige Capital. He is an army veteran and a Kansas City Ambassador for Bunker Labs, a nonprofit that supports military touched entrepreneurs.

“We are very happy to welcome Stacey to the AFS team,” Jason Anish, president and CEO of Austin Financial, said. “His extensive background in working with companies in need of flexible financing solutions due to high growth, turnaround or complex situations will play an integral role in our company’s expansion.”