Betty Hernandez

EVP & Chief Credit Officer, SLR Business Credit

Betty has over 25 years of banking experience. She began her career at First Fidelity Bank, NA (now Wells Fargo Bank) in a Credit Training Program. After two years in the Credit Department she was placed in the asset-based lending area of the Bank where she began her lending career.

She has worked as a portfolio manager, underwriter in asset-based lending as well as a team leader in a Workout Department at various banks.

She is currently chief credit officer at SLR Business Credit. She is a member of SLR’s Management Credit Committee and is responsible for monitoring the credit quality and performance of the company’s asset-based lending and invoice-based financing (factoring) portfolio. Betty possesses a Bachelors of Arts degree in economics from Rutgers University. She also has a Master in business administration from the Rutgers School of Business specializing in finance. She is a past President of the NJ Chapter of the Secured Finance Network, formerly Commercial Finance Association, and an active member of the Chapter. She is also an active member of SFNET’s Women in Commercial Finance Committee, the Education Committee and is serving as Vice Chair of the Commercial Finance Chapters Committee.