Wintrust Commercial Finance appointed Mike Curtis assistant vice president of direct originations.

“We are excited to have Mike join our team,” said Craig Ault, national sales manager and senior vice president of WCF. “His hiring further exhibits our commitment to expanding our reach to middle market companies as we continue to be a leading provider of equipment leases and loans in the U.S.”

Curtis has more than 20 years of equipment finance and leasing experience, with an emphasis on originating large-ticket finance transactions. He will be based in Irvine, CA and report to Robert Harris, vice president of the west region of WCF.

“Wintrust has a successful track record and an outstanding reputation for developing unique capital solutions,” said Curtis. “WCF has quickly grown to $1 billion in assets in a little over four years. I think that speaks volumes about Wintrust’s commitment to capturing market share by providing capital to middle market and enterprise companies. I’m looking forward to contributing to Wintrust’s direct origination efforts.”

Wintrust is a financial holding company with assets of approximately $32 billion. It offers the sophisticated technology and resources of a large bank while focusing on providing service-based community banking to each and every customer, operating fifteen community bank subsidiaries with over 160 banking locations located in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin market areas.