Carmel, Ind.-based Oak Street Funding, a national commission-based lender for insurance agents, is expanding its loan origination, underwriting and loan servicing departments to fuel the company’s continued growth. This move helps the company to meet the needs of insurance agents for capital to buy, build or grow their businesses.
Oak Street Funding announced it has hired Barry Kehl as director of underwriting and Maranda Stars as controller.
Kehl leaves a position where he successfully handled the performance, management and monitoring of a $700 million commercial loan portfolio. He has prior executive level leadership positions for banking and investment companies, including Indiana Bank and Trust and Fifth Third Bank.
Stars was a senior auditor at Ernst & Young, where she performed audits and quarterly reviews for SEC and non-SEC clients in the retail, consumer products and utilities industries.
Following a 36 percent increase in loans to insurance agents in 2011, Oak Street Funding is on pace for 300 percent growth in 2012. As a result, it has also added four new loan officers and two additional customer service representatives to meet pent up demand for capital in the insurance industry.
Source: Oak Street Funding
Topics Mergers & Acquisitions
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