KeyBank Business Capital is expanding its strong asset-based lending program with the addition of Michael Wingard, a seasoned ABL banker with experience throughout the West.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Michael to our steadily growing team,” said Laurie Muller-Girard, national director of KeyBank Business Capital. “We see tremendous opportunity to work with middle market businesses throughout KeyBank’s western markets, drawing on Michael’s years of experience working with a wide variety of businesses, throughout the West, including California.”

Wingard is a senior vice president based in Seattle. He will work with KeyBank Capital Market’s bankers and middle-market bankers in Key’s western markets, which include Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

He joins KeyBank Business Capital from PNC Business Credit, where he was a senior vice president responsible for all business development and marketing initiatives in the Pacific Northwest. His previous experience includes ABL banking in markets including California and western Canada.

He is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth, a former board member of the Northern California Commercial Finance Association and a former member of the National Association of Small Business Companies, the Commercial Finance Conference (Southern California), and the Turnaround Management Association

Key traces its history back more than 160 years and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, Key has assets of approximately $90.8 billion as of March 31, 2014. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals, small and medium-sized business under the name KeyBank National Association. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name.