Stephen C. Cusick joined Wintrust Commercial Finance’s capital markets group as senior vice president. Cusick will be located in WCF’s Los Angeles office and will focus on indirect originations. He joins a national team led by WCF Senior Vice President Tom Forbes, who heads up the capital markets group.

“Wintrust Commercial Finance is truly excited to bring Steve’s depth and variety of experience to our business,” said Forbes. “Steve is an industry veteran with tremendous capital markets expertise in a range of industries, including aircraft, transportation, marine, energy and electronics.”

Cusick brings 30 years of experience to WCF. Before joining the company, he held the role of vice president at Capital One Equipment Finance and, immediately prior to that, he was senior vice president of corporate finance for GE Capital Corporation’s Capital Markets Group.

WCF also announced that, with the help of the expanded WCF team throughout the past year, it has added $220 million of assets since its inception in April of 2015.

“2015 was truly a remarkable year for Wintrust Commercial Finance,” said Kirk Phillips, WCF president and CEO. “We were able to successfully launch the business early in the year, hire a solid core team and execute on over $220 million in profitable asset generation for the company. We are excited about what we are building here at Wintrust and adding solid new members like Steve to the mix will help us to continue to meet our goals in the future.”