Garrington Capital, a secured asset-based lender providing private loans to small and medium- sized enterprises across North America, appointed Tammy Kemp to the position of president of Garrington.
“Tammy’s strategic vision and commitment to excellence make her the ideal leader to drive Garrington’s continued growth and success,” Toreigh Stuart, managing director of Garrington Capital, said.
Since joining Garrington in 2016, Kemp has played a pivotal role in shaping the firm’s credit and risk strategy. In her most recent role as executive vice president and chief credit officer, she was responsible for overseeing overall credit and risk strategy within the broader group, as well as managing all aspects of the firm’s loan portfolio. Kemp also serves as a member of all of the firm’s investment committees as well as being a director on numerous boards.
With more than 25 years of experience in trade finance, asset-based lending, specialty finance and distressed lending across North America’s mid-market commercial lending sector, Kemp brings a wealth of expertise to her new role. Throughout her career, working exclusively for entrepreneurial alternative lenders, Kemp has strategically grown loan portfolios by focusing on curated client centric service balanced with robust risk management, delivered by empowered and effective teams which she has led. Kemp has led numerous client restructurings, underwritten and managed large debtor-in-possession financings in both Canada and the United States.
Kemp has held various board positions within industry organizations including SFNet (education committee), IWIRC (director) and SFNet Canada (vice president).
