Aaron Peyton has joined SunTrust Robinson Humphrey as a managing director to be head of Consumer & Retail Syndicated & Leveraged Finance based in New York.

Peyton has more than 16 years of experience in leveraged finance covering the consumer & retail and healthcare sectors, along with extensive experience with financial sponsors. He was most recently head of Consumer & Retail Leveraged Finance at Goldman Sachs and prior to that was a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch covering several sectors.  In these roles, Peyton executed over 100 financing transactions totaling approximately $125 billion. 

Peyton received his MBA from New York University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.