SLR Equipment Finance hired Steve Sanders as senior vice president of business development. In this new role, Sanders will be responsible for growing SLR Equipment Finance’s leasing and lending activities in the Northeast.

Sanders has more than 15 years of large corporate equipment finance and asset valuation experience.

“I look forward to bringing my expertise to SLR Equipment Finance,” Sanders said. “SLR has established itself as a leading middle-market equipment finance company that delivers creative financing solutions to its clients. I look forward to growing their presence in the Northeast with an emphasis on middle-market companies, intermediaries and advisors and industrial-focused private equity sponsors.”

“We welcome Steve to SLR Equipment Finance,” Randy Hicks, executive vice president of originations at SLR Equipment Finance, said. “His experience working with larger, more complex transactions across a broad spectrum of industries and collateral types is a terrific fit with our company as we strive to build lasting relationships with our customers and support them now and in the future.”