David DiPiero, president and CEO of FGI Finance, announced that Brad Strickland has joined the company as vice president of Business Development in the Atlanta region. Strickland will be responsible for developing new business throughout Georgia and the Carolinas.

Strickland has more than 18 years of global financing experience. Prior to FGI, Strickland was with Melville Capital where he worked in business development and grew the company’s financial and restructuring intermediary referral base in the southeast. He also worked for GE Commercial Finance where he underwrote and managed asset-based and cash flow loans.

FGI Finance, a division of FGI, is a global commercial finance firm with clients in over 60 countries around the world.