Pawnee Leasing has named Dana Freeman as an additional business development manager. Freeman will be responsible for enhancing the company’s development and expansion of originations with its existing and new broker partners primarily in the company’s eastern territory.

Freeman previously had a similar role for Pawnee from 2000-2006 and remained engaged in the equipment finance industry since 2007, in technology development for smaller brokers and lessors.

Gary Souverein, Pawnee’s president, states “Dana’s talent and abilities in relationship development will further strengthen our successful business development team which achieved record originations in 2017 and will help propel Pawnee’s next stage of growth in 2018.”

Chesswood Group, a public company traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, operates in the financial services industry with equipment finance businesses in both Canada and the U.S.