Shannon Smith was promoted to vice president of KLC Financial. Smith will continue to be responsible for leading KLC’s equipment finance credit and operations divisions.

President and CEO Marc Keepman said, “I am excited to promote Shannon. He has demonstrated a high level of professionalism, talent and commitment to KLC Financial’s success.”

Smith has more than 15 years of experience, nine of which has been with KLC. He started in January of 2008 as credit manager and has worked to oversee the credit, funding and operations side of the business. His prior work experience was in the larger banking sector where he held sales and credit underwriting positions. Smith recently received his CLFP designation from the CLFP Foundation.