Citizens Bank named Brent Hazzard head of Structured Finance at Citizens Commercial Banking.

Hazzard joins Citizens from GE Capital where he had served as a leader in both GE’s Restructuring and Distressed Debt businesses. He was also a North American sales leader for GE’s mid-market asset-based lending business.

Hazzard is on the International Board of Trustees of the Turnaround Management Association and is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

“Brent is a very experienced banker who delivers value-added ideas and terrific service to clients,” said Bob Rubino, EVP at Citizens Commercial Banking. “We are very happy to have him join the Citizens team as we focus on providing the great ideas and execution capabilities that our clients need for every stage in the life cycle of their businesses.”

Citizens’ Structured Finance Group is focused on establishing, building and maintaining relationships with senior leaders at large and mid-tier investment banks, distressed-focus private equity funds and other intermediaries to source senior secured financing opportunities greater than $20 million. The team’s experience with lead-left financings would support mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, debtor-in-possession (DIP), plan-of-reorganization (POR) and out-of-court (OOC) transactions.