Minneapolis-based Merchants Bank Equipment Finance has expanded its team by promoting Jane Ziebarth to document transaction manager/officer and adding Bryon Sharp as vice president/senior regional vendor finance manager.
“The promotion of Jane and the key hire in Bryon strategically complement the manner in which we are continually expanding our presence in the equipment finance arena and helps position our team well to meet the future needs of our clients,” said Rick Barry, president of Merchants Bank Equipment Finance.
Ziebarth has been with MBEF since 2005 when she joined as an underwriting analyst. She was promoted to senior underwriting analyst in 2012 before being named senior document transaction coordinator in 2019. “I have been fortunate to work with a dynamic group of individuals since joining Merchants and am very excited to move on to this new opportunity to take the lead within the documentation segment of Merchants Bank Equipment Finance,” Ziebarth said.
Sharp has more than 30 years of equipment finance experience. He was most recently a business development officer for Trans Lease, Inc., following an 18-year career with Wells Fargo Equipment Finance. He has served in credit, collections and audit roles with other equipment finance organizations. “I am excited to join the Merchants Bank Equipment Finance team and be a part of their continued growth and success,” he said. “Their wide range of products and services combined with a personal approach is what makes them unique in the equipment finance industry.”
Merchants Financial Group, Inc. is the parent company for MBEF and also owns 23 Merchants Bank locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Merchants Financial has more than $2.7 billion in assets and is considered one of the largest independent financial organizations in its region.