Monroe Credit Advisors announced Kent Foster has joined the firm as vice president in its Chicago office. Foster will be responsible for assisting in the execution of client engagements.

Prior to Monroe, Foster was a vice president at GE Capital where he held several positions across the leveraged lending platform. At GE Antares he was responsible for loan structuring and syndications for sponsored middle market transactions. He also performed underwriting and portfolio management for GE Capital's Healthcare Financial Services business, as well as primary sales and trading of broadly syndicated loans on GE’s sales desk. Kent also headed up the Market Intelligence and Strategic Marketing team across GE’s Capital Markets organization.

Foster holds and maintains FINRA licenses Series 79 (Investment Banking Representative), Series 63 (Uniform Securities Agent State Law), and Series 7 (General Securities Representative). He earned his B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business.

Monroe Credit Advisors, the boutique investment banking affiliate of middle-market lender, Monroe Capital, provides debt capital solutions to middle-market companies and their investors through strategies built for today's dynamic credit markets. The firm advises on structuring and arranging credit through its relationships with a broad spectrum of debt providers including banks, commercial finance companies, debt investment funds and leasing companies. The firm’s experienced team of leveraged finance professionals approaches the market with a lender's perspective, delivering to its clients real time market intelligence and structuring expertise that results in significant savings of time and money, as well as increased certainty of execution.