Wells Fargo Capital Finance announced Ryan Chin as managing director for loan originations.  Based in Santa Monica, CA, Chin will be focused on originating loans for the Western U.S. region.

“We’re excited to leverage Ryan’s breadth of experience and expertise in this industry.” stated Scott Glassberg, managing director and head of Western region loan originations, Wells Fargo Capital Finance.

Prior to his new role, Chin was managing director for the capital markets group at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, where he was responsible for structuring and underwriting capital solutions that included senior bank debt, ABL FILO tranches, 2nd lien loans, mezzanine debt and unitranche facilities. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Chin was a director in leverage finance at The Royal Bank of Scotland and an associate in Global Corporate and Investment Banking at Bank of America.  Chin graduated from University of California at Davis and holds an MBA from Columbia University.

Wells Fargo Capital Finance is the trade name for certain asset-based lending services, senior secured lending services, accounts receivable and purchase order finance services, and channel finance services of Wells Fargo & Company and its subsidiaries, and provides traditional asset-based lending, specialized senior and junior secured financing, accounts receivable financing, purchase order financing and channel finance to companies across the United States and internationally. Dedicated teams within Wells Fargo Capital Finance provide financing solutions for companies in specific industries such as retail, software and hi-tech, healthcare, commercial finance, staffing, government contracting and others.