Encina Private Credit (EPC) announced two key new senior hires to the originations team to expand the platform’s business development efforts.  Mark Patchell joined EPC as Senior Managing Director, and Brian Tammaro was added as Managing Director.
 
“We are extremely excited to welcome two industry veterans to the EPC team who will help us continue to drive growth in the business by delivering our First Out, enterprise value loan product to private equity-sponsored and non-sponsored borrowers,” said Mike Hensinger, President and CEO of EPC.  “We are building a premier non-bank specialty finance company focused on helping our direct lending partners deliver cost-effective unitranche solutions to their prospective borrowers.”
 
Patchell joined Encina from Capital One where he led the Middle Market Sponsor coverage team and had responsibility for the First Out loan portfolio. He is based in Sarasota, FL.

Tammaro joins from BMO Harris Bank where he was the head of the Boston Office and was responsible for new business originations, underwriting, and portfolio management for the ABL product. He is based in Boston, MA.