Camye Sarrett’s colleagues describe her as a personable, influential and passionate advocate for her clients, someone who proactively balances her client relationships with the loan risk she manages. Just as importantly, she invests her time in working with her co-workers to make the entire team a stronger unit.

“Staying pragmatic and client-oriented are important. You have to put in the time to really know your borrowers’ businesses to be able to get to what matters to your clients to support them in the best way that you can,” Sarrett says when describing her approach to client relationships. “The business relationship starts from there. Recognizing that you are part of a multi-function team that you can rely on was also an important lesson for me. Working with your team members is valuable in so many ways.”

Sarrett began her career in commercial lending in 1992 at CIT. In her first role with the company, she was an assistant account executive and she would go on to join the field exam group as an examiner, where she worked on existing and new transactions and was responsible for training junior examiners.

After two years at CIT, she was promoted to vice president and account executive, managing loans aggregating $100 million in addition to structuring new transactions, managing troubled credits and managing a team of assistant account executives. In 2000, Sarrett left the company to raise her two children and in 2018, she returned to the industry, joining Access Capital in a hybrid/workfrom-home, part-time role. She started as a collateral analyst and soon moved into her current account manager role.

Although Sarrett works remotely and maintains a part-time work schedule, she manages a jaw-dropping 12 direct lending relationships. Sarrett also provides internal instructional training sessions on financial, legal and collateral topics to share her knowledge with others in the company to improve the overall skill sets of her coworkers.