The Sterling Group, a Houston-based middle market private equity and private credit firm, added Jenny Harris as managing director of the firm’s credit fund.

Harris has 15 years of experience evaluating and underwriting debt capital and equity co-investments. Prior to Sterling, she was a managing director at BNP Paribas, where she led a team focused on providing leveraged credit solutions for private equity sponsors. Harris and Sean Davenport of Sterling Credit Fund worked together at BNP Paribas for more than eight years and served as lending partners to Sterling and other middle market sponsors.

The Sterling Group Credit Fund was formed in 2017 to offer both Sterling and other relationship-focused sponsors debt capital to help finance and grow middle market businesses.