Los Angeles — Corporate Headquarters
Michael E. Fishman
Executive Managing Director
Mike Fishman joined the company in 1990 as a loan portfolio manager, and in 1996, he was named National Underwriting Manager, responsible for a team of new business underwriters across the country. By 2000, Fishman was given responsibility for business development nationwide, and today, he manages an originations team of 60 business development officers, analysts and syndications professionals responsible for over $4 billion in new loan commitments in 2007 alone. He is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology.
James Marasco
Senior Managing Director
Jim Marasco oversees the efforts of more than 20 business development officers in Foothill's 8 offices across the country and in Canada. During his tenure, Marasco has been involved in more than $5 billion in commitments of middle market leveraged financings for companies in various industries. Prior to joining Foothill in 1989, Marasco worked in leveraged finance and commercial banking at a number of firms including GE Capital and Citicorp. He served a Director of the West Coast Chapter of the Commercial Finance Association. Marasco is a graduate of Michigan State University where he received a BA degree in Accounting.
Daniel J. McKirdy
Senior Managing Director
After joining Wells Fargo Foothill in 1995, Dan McKirdy worked in various capacities, including Underwriting and Loan Originations. In 2004, McKirdy formed a new team within Loan Originations dedicated to identifying and working directly with prospective borrowers across all of the industries served by Wells Fargo Foothill and Wells Fargo Retail Finance, often in concert with other representatives from throughout Wells Fargo Wholesale Banking.
Scott Glassberg
Managing Director — Southwest Region
Since joining Wells Fargo Foothill in 1990, Scott Glassberg has been involved in sourcing and structuring more than 100 senior secured transactions in a wide range of industries, totaling more than $3 billion in commitments, and has twice received the Wells Fargo “Golden Spoke” award for single-year performance. He has worked on more than 50 sponsor-related buyouts, but is particularly known for his work with acquisition financings in the technology sector. Glassberg graduated cum laude from Cal-State Northridge, where he studied both Finance and Real Estate
Russell W. Parks III
Senior Director
Prior to joining the company, Rusty Parks was a Director at ORIX Finance in their Specialty Finance Group, where he was responsible for purchasing and underwriting distressed debt in the capital markets as well as originating and structuring 2nd lien, mezzanine, and rescue financing on a direct basis. Parks also worked for two venture backed companies in finance and product management in Austin and San Jose. He received his BA from Southwestern University and his MBA/MS Information Systems from Baylor University. He is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Turnaround Management Association.
Carey Do
Director
Carey Do joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 2001 from Wilshire Associates, Inc., a global investment consulting and investment management firm. As Director within the Loan Originations group, Do is responsible for sourcing and structuring financings for sponsor-backed acquisitions, recapitalizations, growth capital and turnarounds. Her coverage includes lending to technology companies, basic industrials, retailers and companies in the hospitality, media and healthcare sector. Prior to her role in Loan Originations, Do worked in Foothill's Underwriting and Loan Closing group as well as in their Specialty Finance group. Do is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside, with a major in Business Administration and a minor in Chinese, and has successfully completed Level 1 of the Chartered Financial Analyst program.
Santiago Coleman
Loan Originations
Santiago Coleman joined Foothill in September 2003 and was instrumental in the build out of the Direct Loan Originations program. Covering the Southwestern United States, Coleman sourced 19 deals and helped to establish the current direct originations infrastructure. He was promoted in September 2007 to Vice President as part of a team tasked with establishing a similar program for Wells Fargo Trade Capital. Prior to joining Foothill, Coleman worked at Donaldson Lufkin and Jenrette and UBS Warburg. He received his BA in Economics from the University of Southern California.
Brandon J. Hodges
Loan Originations
Brandon Hodges joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 2007 as a Direct Loan Originations Officer. Hodges is responsible for sourcing new credit opportunities with prospective borrowers across all the industries served by Wells Fargo Foothill throughout the Southwest region. He also works in concert with other representatives from Wells Fargo Wholesale Banking to provide credit facilities to their customers. Previously, Hodges was a Business Development Officer with the Wells Fargo Regional Commercial Banking Office in Woodland Hills, CA. He also worked as a Business Development Officer for KPMG, LLP in the Greater Los Angeles market. Hodges is a graduate of the University of Utah where he received a BA degree in Marketing.
Craig Warden
Senior Vice President — Loan Originations
Craig Warden joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 2007 to oversee the Direct Loan Originations efforts in the company's Western Region. Previously, Warden was a Business Development Officer with the Wells Fargo Regional Commercial Banking Office in Los Angeles. In addition, Warden managed the Los Angeles office of First Security prior to its acquisition by Wells Fargo. He is a board member of the Ketchum Downtown YMCA and a trustee of Glendale Memorial Hospital Foundation.
Atlanta
Brannon A. Huntz
Senior Director
Brannon Huntz joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 2008 from Fortress Investment Group where he was a Managing Director in the Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund. Prior to Fortress, Huntz spent 10 years at GE Commercial Finance originating and structuring both asset based and leveraged cash flow loans on a 1st and 2nd lien basis. He has completed domestic and international transactions in the areas of acquisitions, recapitalizations, refinancings and privatizations totaling over $4.5 billion. As Senior Director, Huntz is responsible for new business origination in the southeastern United States. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Venture Forum, is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Atlanta Charity Clays and is an active member of the Association for Corporate Growth. Huntz earned his BBA at the University of Georgia and has an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Jerry Jansen
Senior Director
Jerry Jansen has over 25 years experience financing middle market companies and specializes in enterprise value lending, asset-based lending and leveraged acquisitions. Since joining the company in 1998, he has been involved in sourcing and structuring more than 75 transactions totaling more that $2 billion in commitments. Jansen has worked on more than 40 sponsor-related buyouts in a number if industries. He is a graduate of the University of Memphis and received a MBA from Samford University.
Jeffrey Huntington
Senior Vice President — Loan Originations
Jeff Huntington joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 2004 from Fifth Third Bank in Chicago where he was a portfolio manager responsible for managing middle market accounts, as well as originating, negotiating, structuring and underwriting new transactions. Prior to his time at Fifth Third Bank, Huntington was a Business Development Manager at Daugherty Systems, and an Account Manager at National TechTeam. He is a graduate of the University of Dayton and received his MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Chicago.
Jason Martin
Loan Originations
Jason Martin joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 2006. He came from Wachovia's General Banking Group, where he was responsible for booking loans and lines of credit in addition to selling other bank products and services. Martin graduated from Elon University in North Carolina with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and is currently pursuing his MBA from Northeastern University.
C. Scott Thompson
Loan Originations
Scott Thompson has more than 11 years of financial experience, including commercial, capital markets, and corporate banking. Prior to joining Wells Fargo Foothill, Thompson worked for 10 years with Wachovia's Corporate and Investment Banking group, where he was responsible for creating solutions to facilitate mergers and acquisitions, market analysis, and underwriting. His industry specializations included gaming, information technology, staffing, and waste. He is a graduate of Georgia State University.
Boston
Scott Ryan
Managing Director — New England Region
Scott Ryan joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 1996 from Shawmut National Corporation, beginning his career here as an auditor for the Business Finance unit. He then moved through loan administration as an account executive and into underwriting in 2000. Ryan joined Loan Originations as a business development officer in 2002 and was given responsibility over the Boston Originations team and the New England region in 2007. Ryan is a graduate of Villanova University with a BS in Business Administration from the College of Commerce and Finance.
Scott Fiore
Director
Scott Fiore joined the company in 2007 after spending 11 years with Wells Fargo Business Credit. Fiore began his career at Wells Fargo Business Credit as an auditor and then became a Portfolio Manager and was responsible for underwriting, closing and monitoring asset-based transactions before taking on the role of Business Development Officer. Previously, he was a Financial Analyst for a Boston based Bankruptcy Trustee. Fiore is Past President of the Turnaround Management Association, New England Chapter. He has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Robert Stanley
Director
Bo Stanley began his career with Wells Fargo Foothill in 2000 and has held various positions within the organization, including loan administration, field audit, underwriting and loan closing. Since joining the Boston loan administration team in June of 2006, he has closed over 25 deals with more than $500MM in fundings. Stanley is a graduate of the University of Maine with a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance.
Garrick Tan
Senior Vice President — Loan Originations
Garrick Tan and his team are responsible for working directly with prospective customers of the Northeast Region of Wells Fargo Foothill, and nationally for Wells Fargo Retail Finance and Wells Fargo Trade Capital. Prior to his work in Loan Originations, Garrick served for over six years as an underwriter and loan closer for the Business Finance unit. He has also held various credit positions within the organization. Garrick joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 1996.
Ryan Johnson
Loan Originations
Ryan Johnson joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 2007 after spending 7 1/2 years with Wells Fargo Bank, most recently serving as Vice President of Market Growth and Development supporting the new business efforts — especially the Internet marketing efforts — for Wells Fargo Wholesale Banking. Previously, Johnson served as a Wholesale Cross-Sell Consultant working with the Commercial Banking offices in Northern California to maximize cross-selling opportunities. He also served as a product/project manager with the Wholesale Internet & Treasury Solutions team, and began his career in financial services at Wachovia. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a BS in Agriculture and Applied Economics.
Khalid Lakanwal
Loan Originations
Khalid Lakanwal is part of the Loan Originations team in Wells Fargo Foothill’s Boston office, supporting the Northeast region. He joined Foothill after completing the Wells Fargo Credit Management Training Program as an Associate in San Francisco, CA. Prior to that, Lakanwal worked in the Wells Fargo U.S. Corporate Banking office in Minneapolis, MN, underwriting and helping manage relationships in 22 syndicated deals, having underwritten over $3.5 billion in direct credit exposure and $10.0 billion of operating exposure for public and private Fortune 500 manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. He graduated cum laude from Carleton College with a BA in Economics and played on the school’s NCAA D3 basketball team.
Michael Lemieux
Loan Originations
Mike Lemieux joined Wells Fargo Foothill from Pilgrim Power Sports,
where in his role as a sales manager, he developed and established the
company's online store and created various marketing programs that made
Pilgrim the fastest growing Kawasaki dealer in Massachusetts. Prior to
Pilgrim, Lemieux worked at his alma mater, New England College, as a
Marketing Consultant, responsible for marketing and fundraising events.
Lemieux holds a Master's in Finance from the school.
Michael Weissenburger
Loan Originations
Michael Weissenburger has been in Loan Originations since joining Wells Fargo Foothill in 2005. He spent ten years in various positions of corporate finance within the technology industry, most recently with Sonus Networks. His experience also includes three years as Manager of Financial Operations for Converge, Inc., a former Wells Fargo Foothill customer. Weissenburger holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Connecticut and received his Masters in Business Administration from Northeastern University. He is an active member in the Boston chapters of the Commercial Finance Association and Turnaround Management Association.
Chicago
Darren M. Latimer
Regional Director — Midwest & Canada Regions
Darren Latimer has been with Wells Fargo Foothill since 1996, and is today responsible for Loan Originations across the company's Midwest. In addition, Latimer also oversees the originations efforts of the company's Canadian affiliate, Wells Fargo Foothill Canada. He has experience in lending to technology companies, basic industrials, and hospitality and media clients. While he has been based in Chicago since 2001, Latimer previously held positions in both the Los Angeles and New York offices of Wells Fargo Foothill. Prior to joining Foothill, Latimer was an associate in the investment banking group at First Bank, a unit of JP Morgan, in New York.
Eran Cohen
Managing Director – Chicago
Eran Cohen was previously a partner with Monroe Capital, successor fund to Hilco Capital, where he was responsible for deal sourcing, investment structuring, underwriting and execution of fund investments. Cohen has also served as Vice President, Regional Underwriting Manager of the Central Region Corporate Finance Group of FINOVA Capital Corporation. He has worked as CFO/consultant for two companies, at LaSalle Bank, and at Fleet Capital. Cohen obtained his BA degree in finance from the University of Iowa and an MBA in accounting from Loyola University. He is a member of the Commercial Finance Association and the Turnaround Management Association.
Heather La Freniere
Senior Director
Heather La Freniere joined Foothill 2003 and is responsible for new business origination in the Chicago office. She works with intermediaries, consultants and private equity groups around the Midwest to negotiate and structure new credit facilities for their clients/portfolio companies. Prior to joining Foothill, La Freniere spent 10 years in investment banking, structuring, negotiating and marketing debt securities for private companies at ABN AMRO NV and at a Chicago-based regional boutique firm. She completed the credit training program at Norwest Bank NA and spent five years in various roles in the commercial bank including credit analysis/portfolio management and trade finance. La Freniere has a BS in International Business and Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA in Finance from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. She speaks fluent Spanish and is a member of the TMA and the ACG.
Andrea Kurrle
Director
Andrea Kurrle joined Wells Fargo Foothill in early 2005. In her current role within Loan Originations, she is responsible for upfront deal sourcing and the structuring, negotiation and execution of financing solutions for buyouts, re-financings, turnarounds and growth situations. Prior to joining Foothill, Kurrle worked at Prudential Capital Group in Chicago where she analyzed and underwrote new senior and mezzanine transactions while managing a $5 billion portfolio of existing investments. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she earned a BA in Economics.
Jeremy Baker
Loan Originations
Jeremy Baker joined Foothill in February 2007 working closely with the Midwest Loan Originations team, analyzing, structuring, and proposing on several closed transactions. Prior to joining Foothill, Baker worked as a Manager at Protiviti in their Credit Risk consulting group. He began his career at LaSalle Bank, completing their credit management training program that consisted of eight weeks of formal training and nine months of various rotational programs including real estate, leveraged finance, and asset-based finance. After the rotational program, Baker settled into portfolio management in the ABL group sourcing new business and managing middle market relationships for four years. He is a graduate of University of Iowa where he received a Bachelor of Science in Finance.
Joseph H. Wells
Loan Originations
Joe Wells came to the Loan Originations team in Wells Fargo Foothill's Chicago office after completing the Wells Fargo Credit Management Training Program. Previously at Wells Fargo, he worked in the Corporate Banking group in Dallas and helped manage a portfolio with credit commitments over $1 billion. Wells began his career at Robert W. Baird in Wisconsin, and is a graduate of Southern Methodist University.
Dallas
Mark A. Champion
Managing Director — Dallas / Atlanta
Mark Champion spent 10 years at CIT Group in Dallas as a Senior Originator before joining Wells Fargo Foothill in 2007. He currently leads loan originations for the South Region, including the Dallas and Atlanta offices. Champion also worked at Bank One and Caprock Holdings in various capacities, including business development and portfolio management. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Champion is a past president of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Association of Corporate Growth and is co-chairman of the 2008 Texas ACG Capital Connection. He has also served on the board of directors of the Turnaround Management Association.
Colin Chenault
Director
Colin Chenault joined Wells Fargo Foothill as an analyst in 2006. As Director, he is responsible for new business origination in the Dallas office, covering Southwest-based financial sponsors and intermediaries, and for the origination and structuring of middle market debt financings. Prior to joining Foothill, Chenault spent two years with CSG Investments where he was responsible for business development and underwriting. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University and earned his MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Grant Weiss
Director
Grant Weiss joined the company in 2007 and is responsible for loan originations in the Southwest Region. Prior to joining Foothill, Weiss spent 8 years at CIT Group where he gained experience in portfolio management and loan originations. Weiss also spent time at KPMG in Dallas. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Turnaround Management Association and is an active member of the Association for Corporate Growth. He is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Accounting and received his MBA from Southern Methodist University.
Bryan Milner
Loan Originations
Bryan Milner joined Wells Fargo Foothill in 2006 from Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco where he attended the bank's Credit Management Training Program (CMTP). Prior to attending CMTP, Milner was an Analyst at Wells Fargo Bank in Dallas. He is a graduate of the University of North Texas and earned his MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
New York
Stephen Schwartz
Managing Director — New York
Stephen Schwartz has been with Wells Fargo Foothill since 1995 and has held various positions within the organization, including loan administration, field audit, underwriting and loan closing. Prior to his current role, Schwartz was Credit Manager for Wells Fargo Foothill Specialty Finance. He currently manages all origination efforts in the Northeast, with offices in New York, Connecticut and Boston. Schwartz holds a BA in Economics from the University of California at San Diego and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Carolyn N. Glick
Managing Director — New York
As Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Wells Fargo Foothill's New York Loan Originations office, Carolyn N. Glick and her team are responsible for sourcing, analyzing and structuring financings for recapitalizations, acquisitions, re-financings, and turnarounds. Prior to joining Foothill in 2002, Carolyn held positions at Murphy Noell Capital and FINOVA Capital Corporation. Carolyn graduated with a dual major in Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College.
Fridolf Hanson
Senior Director
Fridolf Hanson covers the private equity firms and hedge funds located in the Connecticut region for the company, originating both cash flow and asset based transactions. Hanson was previously with GE Commercial Finance for almost 10 years in various positions in both Connecticut and New York. His experience includes business development, loan syndications, portfolio management, underwriting and Six Sigma Quality. Hanson received his BBA from the University of Colorado and his MBA from Wake Forest University.
Peter J. Ulmer
Senior Director
Peter Ulmer originally joined the company in 1998 as a Portfolio Analyst and an early member of the Foothill Capital Corporation Atlanta team. After a brief stint in the Commercial Finance Group at G.E. Capital Corporation, Ulmer returned to Foothill's New York office in April of 2000 as an Originations Analyst. After devoting three years to heading the Direct Loan Originations effort for the Company's Northeast Region, he transitioned into structuring and managing leveraged buyout financings for Private Equity sponsors actively investing in the Software, Business Services and Manufacturing sectors. Ulmer holds a BBA, with a concentration in Finance, from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Todd Schwartz
Director
As Director, Todd Schwartz is responsible for coverage of Northeast-based financial sponsors and financial advisors, and for the origination and structuring of middle market debt financings. Prior to joining the company in 2005, Schwartz worked in investment grade debt capital markets at Deutsche Bank Securities. He graduated from Duke University with a BA in Economics.
San Francisco
Steven V. Macko
Managing Director — Northwest Region
Steve Macko joined Foothill in 1998, originally working out of its Los Angeles headquarters, but relocated to the San Francisco Bay area in 1999 to establish Foothill's San Francisco office. Prior to joining Foothill, Macko spent several years at the firms of Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and the securities firm of Strome Investment Management, an alternative investment strategy hedge fund. Macko received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is a licensed California Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and has successfully completed Level 1 of the Chartered Financial Analyst Program.
Eric Baymiller
Senior Director
Eric Baymiller joined Foothill in 2008 to cover loan originations in the Northern California and Mountain West markets. He has 20 years of experience in banking and finance and an extensive asset-based and leveraged lending background across a broad spectrum of industries. Prior to joining Foothill, Baymiller was Executive Director with Robabank and has held originations and management positions with Heller Financial, GE Capital and Union Bank of California. He graduated magna cum laude from Drake University with a BA in Political Science. Baymiller is a member of the NorCal Commercial Finance Association where he has served as Vice President and Board Member and is also a member of the Turnaround Management Association and Association for Corporate Growth.
Jason Cosso
Director
Jason Cosso joined Wells Fargo Foothill in July 2004 and is responsible for originating and structuring new loans in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. Prior to joining Foothill, Cosso underwrote and managed commercial loans for middle market companies at Comerica Bank in the Bay Area and Portland, OR. He is a graduate of Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo, CA where he studied Political Science and Economics. He is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and is the Membership Chairman for the Northern California chapter of the Turnaround Management Association.
Mark P. Pilja
Loan Originations
Mark Pilja joined Wells Fargo Foothill in October 2004, originally as an analyst supporting Loan Originations in the Los Angeles office. He was promoted to Assistant Vice President and relocated to the Bay Area in 2007. Previously, Pilja worked at Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor, and at Iverson Financial Systems, where he provided technical research for both fixed income and equity trading activities. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan, where in 2000, as captain of the school's cross country team, he was named a NCAA Division I All-American.
Toronto — Wells Fargo Foothill Canada
Mark V. Sturrock
Managing Director — Toronto
Wells Fargo Foothill Canada
Mark Sturrock joined Wells Fargo Foothill Canada at its inception in 2007. Previously, he spent 22 years at RBC Financial Group following the completion of his Bachelors degree in Business and Economics. Sturrock held a variety of positions with RBC including Retail Banking, International Trade and Corporate Banking. In addition to Mark's undergraduate degree, he completed the Queen's Executive Program in November 2001 and the Executive Leadership program at York University in October 2000.
Michael S. Vasquez
Loan Originations
Wells Fargo Foothill Canada
Michael Vasquez joined Wells Fargo Foothill Canada in 2007 after spending six years with Wells Fargo Bank in Minneapolis. Most recently Vasquez completed Wells Fargo Bank's 6-month Credit Management Training Program (CMTP) in San Francisco. Prior to CMTP he was a financial analyst in the Minneapolis Regional Commercial Banking Office and Minneapolis Loan Adjustment Group. He is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus in St. Peter, Minnesota with a degree in Financial Economics and Sociology.
