Encina Lender Finance announced the promotion of Dan Avnir to Chief Commercial Officer. Avnir had previously served as Managing Director, Originations.

In Avnir’s new role, he will continue to lead ELF’s origination strategy across its commercial and consumer verticals. Avnir will also lead ELF’s syndications strategy by managing the capital markets initiatives for various portfolio companies.

Ed Chang, CEO of ELF, said, “Our lender finance strategy has benefited greatly from Dan’s deep domain expertise across numerous commercial and consumer asset classes.  He has served a critical role in maintaining a robust pipeline for the firm and has been a leader and key contributor to ELF’s scale to date.  We are very excited to welcome Dan to the senior executive management team as we continue to position ELF as a best-in-class non-bank lender finance platform.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Encina Lender Finance offers revolving lines of credit and term loans ranging in size from $10 – $50 million to emerging and established specialty finance companies (sponsor and non-sponsor backed) across a wide range of asset classes including, but not limited to, asset-based lending, factoring, equipment leasing, insurance finance, private credit, consumer lending and specialty consumer equipment finance.