Encina Equipment Finance added William Yulo to its Risk team as a Senior Vice President.

As an SVP on Encina Equipment Finance’s Risk team, Yulo will primarily lead portfolio management and reporting, and also have new business underwriting responsibilities. He will report to Katherine Branch, Chief Risk Officer of Encina Equipment Finance.

Prior to joining Encina Equipment Finance, Yulo was a Segment Credit Officer at Sterling National Bank, where he reviewed and approved new asset-based and leveraged loan transactions. He has an extensive credit background, having spent more than 14 years in various GE Capital businesses in underwriting, portfolio and finance roles.
 
Launched in June 2017, Encina Equipment Finance provides loans and leases ranging in size from $5 million to $50 million secured by essential-use machinery and equipment. The platform provides financing to both privately owned (sponsor and non-sponsor) and publicly traded companies across a wide range of collateral types, industries (including, but not limited to, construction, distribution, energy, food processing, health care, information technology, manufacturing, mining, paper & packaging, and transportation) and use cases (including loans against existing or newly acquired assets, leases of newly acquired assets and sale-leasebacks of existing assets).  EEF is a portfolio company of Franklin BSP Lending Corporation and Franklin BSP Capital Corporation, business development companies advised by affiliates of Benefit Street Partners LLC.