Cheryl Carner is a Managing Director with Crystal Financial and is responsible for business development and marketing strategy. She sources, structures and underwrites senior and junior secured debt financings for middle-market companies across a wide range of industries. Debt facilities range in size from $10 million to $100 million and are used for buyouts, refinancings, restructurings or general working capital purposes. Prior to joining Crystal Financial, Carner was a SVP with GE Franchise Finance focused on debt financings for private equity backed restaurant companies. At CapitalSource, she was the Managing Director of the Retail & Consumer specialty lending team and provided over $1.0 billion of commitments to private equity backed retail, restaurant, apparel and consumer product companies. Her 20 years of experience in the financial services sector began with Fleet Retail Finance and its predecessor entities. Carner received her BBA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her MBA at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.