Carmel, Indiana-based Merchants Bank of Indiana hired Pawel “Paul” Jastrzebski as vice president, senior business development officer for the Small Business Administration Lending division.
Jastrzebski joins the Merchants Bank SBA team and will work from Denver, Colorado.
Jastrzebski brings over a decade of business development experience to his new role at Merchants Bank. He has significant prior lending expertise as a Senior Vice President and Team Lead/Business Development Officer for SomerCor 504, a leading CDC lender in Chicago.
While at SomerCor, Jastrzebski gained industry recognition as a top generator of SBA 504 loans to small businesses and contributed to company growth with over $500 million in successful loan transactions.
Jastrzebski has rejoined the lending community after a recent planned personal and professional international sabbatical. During this time, he visited over 45 countries and, with global connections he made while traveling, co-founded and served as Chief Talent Officer at Mintted.io, the first off-chain social digital token exchange platform of its kind. In this role, he advised public figures on how to turn their social media influence into financial assets, oversaw the company’s global enterprise growth, and helped it achieve a near $20 million valuation.
As Merchants Bank’s newest SBA lender, Jastrzebski will use his distinctive small business experience and relationships to help craft strategies to generate, develop, and maintain new business for the bank. He will also be responsible for originating SBA 7(a) and 504 loans for clients nationwide.
