C-Level Woman on the Rise: Small Business Lending Veteran Stephanie Bitters joins BusinessUS

Not many SBA lending stories include female C-Level executives, but here's one: Stephanie Bitters has just joined BusinessUS, an innovative Los Angeles-based non-bank lender with a big vision. With 27 years experience, Bitters is right at home.
 
LOS ANGELES - Dec. 26, 2013 - PRLog -- BusinessUS has announced the hiring 27-year SBA lending veteran Stephanie Bitters as Chief Credit Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Ms. Bitters joins veteran small business lenders Norris Lozano (CEO, 30 years), Antonio “AZ” Zate (Managing Director, SBA Lending, 23 years), and Tara Johnson (Chief Legal Officer, 10 years and over 1,500 transactions) on the operational team of BusinessUS, a non-bank lender delivering SBA 7(a) loans to American small businesses that cannot get credit elsewhere.

“We are extremely fortunate to have an experienced small business lending professional of Stephanie Bitters’ stature join our lending team,” says Lozano. “Her innate leadership, coupled with deep experience with some of the country’s most successful SBA lenders, will help us further develop the best-in-class systems we need to compete.”

Over her 27-year career, Ms. Bitters has developed expertise in all operational aspects of SBA lending including loan origination, credit, closing, servicing and liquidation processes. She has held executive roles and lending authority up to $3.5million, with leading small business lenders Live Oak Banking Company (2nd largest originator of small business loans in the US), US Bancorp (5th largest US commercial bank), Temecula Valley Bancorp ($383 million in loans under her leadership in 2008), Transamerica, and GE Capital.

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310-409-0231
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