Monroe Capital hired Amanda Tallman as vice president, direct originations. Tallman will be responsible for originating transactions direct to non-sponsored and family-owned businesses. She will be based in the firm’s Chicago office.

Prior to Monroe, Tallman was a vice president at PNC Bank for nearly 10 years. While at PNC, she assisted middle-market privately held businesses and their owners navigate various transformational events through a variety of financing solutions.

“We are very excited to add Amanda to the Monroe Capital originations team,” Tom Aronson, vice chairman and head of originations of Monroe Capital, said. “Amanda has an accomplished commercial banking career providing financing solutions to privately held middle-market companies. She will help us to expand our direct outreach to business owners and our many commercial banking finance partners.”