Brent Parker Hazzard

Brent P. Hazzard heads Citizens Bank’s Asset Based Lending, Asset Finance and Transitional finance teams in Boston and has more than 30 years of experience as a lender. He’s responsible for working with more than 150 bankers managing $10 billion in commitments and driving approximately $1.5 billion in annual new business by satisfying customers financing needs. Mr. Hazzard joined Citizens in 2016to build its transitional finance lending business to source new restructuring-based financings. In 2018,Citizens added the asset-based business to his responsibilities, and he added the Asset Finance team to his responsibilities in 2021. Mr. Hazzard’s notable past leadership responsibilities include building and managing structured finance for Shawmut Bank, as well as originations leader for GE Capital’s ABL team for the East, Midwest and Canada. Additionally, he was a leader in distressed-debt and restructuring at GE Capital and was a participant in the credit committee for each of these leadership roles. Mr.Hazzard has been a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Connecticut’s School of BusinessM.B.A. program for the past 17 years and has designed and taught courses on mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, marketing and sales leadership. He received his Bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Connecticut and his M.B.A. from the University of Hartford. He also has completed the coursework at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking and is a graduate of GE’s GlobalManagement Development program and Harvard’s Executive Development Program.