A new asset-based lending firm has been founded by long-term Dallas lenders James E. Casper, Michael D. Haddad and Jim S. Johnson. The new venture, Marquette Business Credit, Inc. (MBCI), is a de novo company of Marquette Financial Companies, a US$1 billion diversified specialty finance and banking entity owned by the Carl Pohlad family of Minneapolis.
Casper, Haddad and Johnson were most recently executives with Guaranty Business Credit Corporation of Dallas.
Casper, who will serve as MBCI president and CEO, was senior vice president/group manager of Guaranty. Haddad, formerly president and CEO of Guaranty, will serve as MBCI's senior vice president and Johnson, formerly senior vice president, manager of the underwriting department for Guaranty, will be senior vice president of MBCI.
