Jeff Hagar

Mr. Hagar has over 17 years of lending experience, including loan structuring, underwriting, portfolio management, and restructuring. He specializes in leveraged lending, mergers and acquisitions, and recapitalizations for middle market and lower middle market companies utilizing both cash flow and asset-based structures. Mr. Hagar worked at Chatham Capital from 2004 to 2014, prior to rejoining Chatham Capital in 2017. From 2014 until 2016, Mr. Hagar was a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase in the Middle Market Banking group, where he was responsible for relationship management and new business development. Mr. Hagar also held positions with UMB Financial Corporation, where he was responsible for new deal underwriting, portfolio monitoring and risk ratings analysis, and Central Bancompany, where he was a Loan Review Analyst. Mr. Hagar received a BSBA in Finance from the University of Missouri. He also holds an MBA in Finance from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.