Capital One Financial Corp. in McLean, Va., said Thursday that it has hired Dean C. Graham, the former president at commercial lender CapitalSource Inc., to lead the newly created commercial and specialty-finance business.
Reporting to Mike Slocum, president of commercial banking, Graham is responsible for equipment leasing and finance, leverage finance, healthcare and other asset-based lending businesses. Slocum's Bethesda, Md.-based division accounts for a large portion of Capital One's outstanding commercial loans.
Graham most recently served as president and chief operating officer at CapitalSource in Chevy Chase, Md. The company specializes in lending to middle-market companies primarily in the healthcare, leveraged finance, real estate and securities industries with credit needs in the range of $5 million to $100 million. It also is the parent company of CapitalSource Bank in Los Angeles.
Prior to joining CapitalSource, Graham was an executive at Heller Healthcare Finance and HealthCare Financial Partners.
