Johnny Bebbington joined Sentry Financial in October 2020 as an investment analyst on the credit and underwriting team. He has since expanded his responsibilities to include strengthening the company’s consortium of funding partners.

Sentry Financial has a 35-year history of providing unique financing solutions to customers in equipment finance, private equity, real estate and structured finance. The company is committed to environmental, social and corporate governance investing and firmly believes in promoting renewable energy alternatives, supporting societal change and working to build a more equitable future for all.

Within the equipment finance arena, Sentry Financial sees huge potential in the transition to new technologies supporting efforts to address climate change. The company is optimistic that proposed infrastructure legislation and the renewed commitment of the Biden administration to address the climate crisis will help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and solar energy generation.

“The advancement of technology across all markets has been dramatically accelerated over the past 20 years by new sources of risk capital in the form of equity investment in emerging companies,” Bebbington says. “More recently, we are seeing that this risk capital is also being aggressively deployed in more traditional areas such as equipment finance by hedge funds and family offices. Greater risk tiering by lenders and a greater appetite for risk by new entrants to the market, all in a low interest rate environment, should lead to a very dynamic equipment finance market over the next few years.”