Reliant Funding expanded its executive team across several departments. The company has seen record growth across all areas of its business. The growth milestones come after an increase in clients funded through the Reliant Funding platform.

Matt Price was promoted to chief sales officer. A veteran of Reliant Funding, Price has been a crucial part of the company’s success since he joined over a decade ago. For the past five years, he was head of sales for Reliant. In his new role, Price will lead all our revenue generation business segments including the Retail and Wholesale business for new and repeat customers.

Eric Macwan joined as vice president of Information Technology. He will lead the strategic direction, oversight and management of the Information Technology. With a well-established track record, he will be working alongside other executive leaders to provide alignment and support to the business units, while establishing an IT roadmap for the organization. As an executive, he understands how to scale and mature the organization to the next level, while creating a solid IT roadmap for Reliant Funding. Previously, he has served as CIO of IT at Family Health Centers of San Diego, William Warren Group, Rutgers University and New York City Government.

Bob Wiederecht joined as vice president of Operations. He will oversee all operations, driving the company’s continual growth momentum. Well-established in the financial industry, Wiederecht has broad experience using strategic vision to improve marketing, financial and credit dynamics of consumer lending businesses including credit card and mortgage portfolios. He held various executive positions at JPMorgan Chase for over 32 years and most recently served as executive director of Operations Business Analytics there.

Joel Rose joined as director of Credit Policy. With a successful track record in the financial and credit card space, Rose is a lending risk management veteran having worked at Chase Card, HSBC Auto, and Citi Card. Rose has successfully applied his unique approach to building lending programs at community lenders. Rose established new credit card, auto loan and unsecured lending programs at Kinecta Federal Credit Union, BBCN Bank, and Financial Partners Credit Union.

In the last three years, Reliant has provided almost $700 million in funds for American small business owners and continues along that trend. The top industries funding with Reliant includes health care, restaurants, construction, contracting and business services.

“Reliant has had an amazing decade of steady growth. We’ve surpassed $1 billion in total funding and have serviced well over 20,000 small businesses while employing the best of the best,” said Founder and CEO Adam Stettner.

“Our passion is small businesses. Now, we’re pleased to announce our expansion with expanded leadership roles and the onboarding of key executives.”