Pawnee Leasing hired Branden Mennitt as a business development representative. Mennitt 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.

Mennitt previously worked for OTR Capital in Business Development and Account Management, where he assisted customers with the financing necessary to support their business.

Gary Souverein, Pawnee’s president, commented, “Branden’s background will further strengthen our successful business development team which achieved record originations in 2018, and will continue to propel Pawnee’s next stage of growth for the remainder of 2019.”

Founded in 1982, Pawnee Leasing is a national small-ticket equipment finance business specializing in lending to small and medium sized businesses in all credit profiles from “A” to “C”, for transactions up to $250,000.

Chesswood Group, operates in the financial services industry with equipment finance businesses in both Canada and the U.S.