We are pleased to announce that Mr. Eric Swilling has joined the leadership team as the Director of Lending at ACE | Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs.
Swilling supervises the lending team and oversees loan production, ensuring that goals of capital deployment and programmatic impact are met. He uses his relationship building skills to lead business development for lending and cultivate key strategic partnerships.
An experienced Credit Administrator, Swilling has a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. He also has a long history with ACE, working on the credit team previously, as well as serving as a trusted partner providing underwriting services through Swilling Underwriting Services, LLC. Prior to his work with ACE, he was the VP Commercial Lender at SCBT, where he developed and managed a $32 million loan portfolio consisting of commercial and consumer mortgages, equity lines and various installment loans.
“Eric’s talent for building relationships will help strengthen our lending team,” said ACE President & CEO Grace Fricks. “His years of lending and banking give him the expertise to handle the growth that ACE is seeing through the pandemic – there is more need than ever for ACE’s services across Georgia.”
Swilling is a graduate of Capella University’s School of Business, obtaining a BSBA in Finance. He later received his MBA in Accounting from Capella University.