Crestmark Equipment Finance hired Barry Curry as vice president and business development officer. Curry will work closely with Crestmark’s Transportation Division and provide rolling stock financing solutions to transportation businesses across the U.S.

In addition to transportation, Curry will work with businesses nationwide across a range of industries, including manufacturing and distribution. Based in Alabama, Curry will report to Scott Grady, president of Crestmark’s equipment leasing division.

Curry joins Crestmark from Commercial Credit Group where he was a regional sales manager with a focus on helping trucking companies with equipment financing and leasing. He has more than 30 years of experience in sales, corporate finance, credit underwriting, relationship management and portfolio management in the commercial banking, asset-based lending, equipment finance and transportation industries.

“I am pleased to welcome Barry Curry to Crestmark Equipment Finance where his strong finance background and experience in the trucking industry will be assets as CEF grows its presence in leasing and finance products to the transportation industry,” said Grady.

In addition to equipment finance experience gained at Commercial Credit Group, Curry’s career experience includes positions in senior-line sales, underwriting and asset-based lending at BB&T Commercial Finance, Wachovia Capital Finance, CIT Business Credit, First Union National Bank and Lighthouse Financial. He also held commercial banking positions in sales and underwriting with Bay National Bank and First Union National Bank. Earlier in his career he was the controller for North Carolina-based Shelba D. Johnson Trucking.

Crestmark Equipment Finance, located in Bloomfield Hills, MI, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crestmark Bank. CEF was established in October 2014 with Crestmark’s acquisition of TIP Capital, an independent provider of equipment finance, asset-management solutions and flexible vendor financing programs.