I have spent the last 25 years helping businesses with their banking needs. I am fortunate to lead a group of extremely talented commercial bankers located across the state and am grateful to have had the opportunity to help form and now grow Mercantile Community Partners. We are headquartered in Michigan and differentiate ourselves on the basis of service quality, flexibility, expertise and common sense. Mercantile Bank continues to rapidly grow and is currently $5.4 billion in total assets, which proudly makes us the largest bank headquartered in the State of Michigan!

I led an experienced team of commercial real estate bankers covering West Michigan and Mid-Michigan.

Business DevelopmentLeveraged LendingStructured FinanceAsset Based LendingFinancing M&A, LBO's, Recaps, Expansions, Refi's and Turnarounds

- Senior credit officer for national multi-family permanent mortgage platform funded on balance sheet.- Closed $800 million in first year of operation.- Maintained credit approval authority up to $50 million.

- Served as senior credit officer on a $3.2 billion portfolio of exit commercial real estate loans located throughout the Midwest and Southeast United States.- Maintained credit approval authority up to $25 million.

- Maximized value and return while minimizing risk and loss to the Bank on a $120 million portfolio of commercial real estate loans housed in the distressed asset portfolio with an exit strategy.

- Developed and managed an investment real estate portfolio of loans with total outstanding loan balances in excess of $160 million.

- Developed and maintained banking relationships with a portfolio of commercial borrowers in various industries including: investment real estate, commercial, industrial and service.

- Managed daily credit operations through the oversight of 12 credit analysts supporting commercial lenders in Michigan.

- Facilitated commercial loan approval by preparing high quality credit analysis on existing customer and prospects.