Gene Swift is based in Los Angeles and focuses on senior roles in Corporate and Commercial Banking, Asset-Based Lending (ABL) and Factoring, Leveraged Finance, Structured Finance and Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS), Project Finance, Alternative and Non-Bank Lending, Debt Capital Markets, and a variety of other areas in finance and banking. Prior to Sheffield Haworth, Gene spent 17 years at Wells Fargo, where he built and led the Marketing & Communications functions at Wells Fargo Capital Finance and served on its executive management committee. Gene has also held line and staff roles in Corporate Finance at FINOVA Capital Corporation and previously worked as an independent consultant and in the film and television industry. Gene graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in Theatre and English and holds a Master of Fine Arts from The American Film Institute.
Julian manages Sheffield Haworth Inc. and the firm’s businesses in the Americas generally. He specializes in Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, M&A, Equity & Debt Capital Markets, Private Equity and Infrastructure, covering the USA, Canada and Latin America. Over the years, he has completed senior assignments in the US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil in addition to the UK, Europe, Russia, Middle East and South Africa. Julian joined Sheffield Haworth in 2004 in London, before moving to New York in 2007. Before joining Sheffield Haworth, he worked in investment banking for 18 years at S.G. Warburg, Morgan Stanley, CSFB and Société Générale in London, Frankfurt and Hong Kong. He graduated from the Queen’s College at the University of Oxford with a B.A. in PPE/Russian & Economics.
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