The premier executive search partner for specialized credit talent

Smith & Wilkinson has an extensive track record of serving clients who find creative ways to serve their customers’ needs through tailored lending solutions. Our history includes working with asset-based lending and equipment finance organizations, as well as leveraged lending and project finance platforms on a nationwide basis, serving middle-market financial services firms. 

Your firm needs entrepreneurial, creative leaders who can operate in fast-paced, less structured environments. Serving both the commercial and consumer finance space, we deliver candidates who bring both domain knowledge and a growth mindset, building out underwriting, operations, portfolio management, and originations functions.  

Smith & Wilkinson has a 25-year-plus track record of serving the regulated banking sector working with institutions up to and over $100B in assets. Our work spans across all lines of business from originations to credit, finance, and risk, to operations and technology. Our firm has completed projects from board seats on publicly traded organizations to skilled individual contributor roles and teams, as well as platform and team buildouts.  

As both bank and non-bank lending organizations seek new technologies and services to streamline their process and customer experience, Smith & Wilkinson is well-positioned to help you secure the top talent to lead your organization. Over the last three decades, we have helped firms with partnership roles, program management hires, as well as operational and risk roles associated with setting up, building and managing existing platforms to serve your customers.  

Over the last 25 years, Smith & Wilkinson has served our clients in the specialty finance area and has the vertical industry expertise to help you find the right candidate for the right target market. We have helped our clients make critical hires in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, energy/infrastructure, technology, manufacturing & distribution, SBA, and agricultural lending, as well as many more niche geography-specific sectors. If your organization needs leaders with a proven track record of serving a specific industry vertically, we have the experience and network to quickly map out and deliver the top talent to your team.