Cheryl Carner

Senior Managing Director, SLR Credit Solutions

Cheryl Carner is a results-driven professional with over 25 years of corporate finance experience. She is well versed in the debt capital markets and her expertise in structuring complex debt financings for middle-market companies has provided her clients with solutions that generate immediate benefits in terms of providing incremental liquidity, growth capital, or reducing the cost of capital. Cheryl is currently a senior managing director at Crystal Financial, a non-bank direct private credit provider with $600 million in AUM. In her role she is responsible for business development and marketing strategy.

Since joining in 2011, she has sourced, structured and underwritten over $550 million of debt financings. Prior to Crystal, Cheryl was an SVP at GE Franchise Finance focused on the financing needs of private equity-backed companies in the restaurant industry. As a managing director at CapitalSource, she led the retail & consumer specialty lending team. Her career began in the asset-based lending sector at Fleet Retail Finance. She received her MBA at the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and her BBA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.