Jason Dufour joined the White Oak Healthcare Finance team as a managing director. Dufour will focus on supporting the expansion of the operational capabilities of White Oak Healthcare Finance including originations, underwriting and servicing.

Dufour joined White Oak from the healthcare team at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, where he was a regional credit manager, responsible for the expansion of the nationwide portfolio management and underwriting capabilities of WFCF’s healthcare team. He built out the team’s East Coast footprint, recruited members to develop its depth of experience in healthcare finance and further strengthened the group’s national healthcare presence and capabilities. Prior to WFCF, Dufour spent 14 years with GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services (acquired in 2015 by Capital One) in various senior risk roles, departing as the healthcare ABL segment risk leader.

Dufour’s credit risk experience includes key healthcare segments such as hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. His experience brings credit risk expertise across various loan products including asset-based lending, life science venture loans, SNF real estate and leveraged term loans.

White Oak is a provider of financing solutions to the healthcare industry.