PNC Business Credit announced two appointments to its senior secured financing teams in Canada and the Midwest region.

Patrick Mercieca joins PNC’s senior secured financing team as vice president and business development officer. Based in Toronto, he is responsible for originating asset-based and cash flow loans across Canada with middle-market companies and private equity firms. Mercieca joins PNC Business Credit from Wells Fargo Capital Finance, where he most recently served as assistant vice president for loan originations. He holds a bachelor of commerce degree from Bishop’s University in Quebec.

A six-year PNC veteran, Felicia Leksono has been named vice president and business development officer with the senior secured financing team. Based in Pittsburgh, she is responsible for business development with private equity firms and middle-market companies, as well as origination of asset-based and cash flow loans in the Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia markets. Leksono most recently served as a solutions specialist with PNC’s Treasury Solutions Group. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics with concentrations in finance and marketing from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

PNC Business Credit is the senior secured lending division of PNC Bank, N.A., and its subsidiaries and a part of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.