Webster Bank announced the targeted expansion of Webster Capital Finance with the addition of three well-known veteran lenders in the transportation, construction and manufacturing finance arena.
Woodbridge Group, (d/b/a Woodbridge International), announced that David P. Olson joined the firm as a managing director. Olson will focus on enhancing Woodbridge’s relationships with private equity groups.
Stifel Financial announced that Paul Harvey has joined Stifel Nicolaus Weisel as a managing director in the firm’s London office. He will head up the European technology practice. Harvey joined Stifel Nicolaus from Atlantic Bridge, a European, tech-focused middle-market fund that he cofounded in 2005.
Oppenheimer announced that John Carson, Ryan Gray and William Kaeli have joined the firm’s middle-market institutional sales group from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. The team will be based in Philadelphia.
Linsalata Capital Partners has promoted Timothy G. Healy to senior vice president. Healy joined the firm in 2004 after spending 13 years with National City Bank, most recently as senior vice president in the equity sponsor group.
MJ Hilker has joined Great Lakes Business Credit as the new regional marketing director for the Ohio region. Previously, she worked at Corporate Management Solutions.
City National Bank said it has hired four new bankers in Seattle to focus on franchise finance and will open a loan production office in Seattle. The new bankers came from GE Capital Franchise Finance.
First Capital announced the hiring of Richard J. Lehrter in the Midwest region. Lehrter will be responsible for new business development for both asset-based lending and factoring facilities in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Michigan markets for First Capital’s Midwest region.
Bridge Capital Holdings hired Chris Perkins as VP, relationship manager for the Northeast region. He was most recently with Massachusetts Growth Capital.
Allegiance Capital announced that trucking industry specialist Mark Dyer has joined its New York office to serve as the managing director.