Wintrust Commercial Finance (WCF) announced that Brian de la Houssaye has joined the company’s direct originations group, as senior vice president – business development. He will be located in WCF’s Frisco headquarters, focusing on direct originations in the south central region and will join the national team led by Executive Vice President and COO Joe Thompson.

“I am very happy that Brian has joined our team,” said Thompson. “He has excelled in every role throughout his career. I cannot think of an industry that Brian has not financed. His energy is infectious. Having worked with him previously, I know Brian will do a great job and be a model of how we want to grow our direct salesforce.”

De la Houssaye brings 36 years of commercial finance experience to WCF, including positions at Cargill, Verizon, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase. Before joining the team, he was vice president – direct originations at AIG Investments. 

Thompson went on to explain: “It’s a very exciting time for our business and customers. Wintrust has provided everything we need to be a best-in-class commercial asset finance business. We are off to a tremendous start. It all begins with having the best people and I’m proud of this team.” 

Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $22 billion in assets. The company provides traditional commercial and community banking services; asset-based lending; wealth management services; commercial insurance premium financing; mortgage origination; short-term accounts receivable financing; and certain administrative services, such as data processing of payrolls, billing and treasury management services.