Stonebriar Commercial Finance (Stonebriar) announced that Don Walsh has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Originations for SCF Business Aviation, the company's global business aviation financing platform.

Walsh joins Stonebriar from Guggenheim Partners, where he was most recently a Managing Director and oversaw new transaction origination activity for Guggenheim's Business Aircraft Investments group. He brings over 25 years of experience in the business aviation finance industry, previously originating transactions at US Bank Equipment Finance, Key Equipment Finance and Boeing Capital Corporation where he was also an asset manager.

"We're very pleased that Don has joined SCF Business Aviation as part of the acquisition of the Guggenheim Business Aircraft Investments team," stated Michael T. Amalfitano and Nicholas M. Sandler, Co-Heads of SCF Business Aviation and EVPs at Stonebriar. "Don's extensive experience and relationships yielded significant results at Guggenheim and we look forward to him helping us grow SCF Business Aviation into a market leading provider of capital solutions to the aircraft industry.

"I am thrilled to be joining SCF Business Aviation and the Stonebriar family", said Walsh. "Stonebriar's broad product capabilities across multiple asset classes uniquely situates SCF Business Aviation to be innovative in its approach to the market". About Stonebriar Commercial Finance: Stonebriar is a privately held commercial finance company established in 2015 and based in Plano, TX.

With financial backing from Security Benefit Corporation, Stonebriar is building a world class, multi-billion dollar platform of commercial loans and leases. Since its inception, Stonebriar has funded and committed to in excess of $550 million in financings. Stonebriar specializes in transactions for businesses in a wide variety of industries (Business Aviation, Rail Leasing, Realty Capital, marine, transportation, manufacturing, energy, etc.) throughout the entire credit spectrum located in the United States, Canada and select other foreign jurisdictions.