Joe Peterson

Joe is president of the Structured Finance Group at First Merchants Bank in Indianapolis, where he has P&L responsibility and leads the strategy and the operations of the Public Finance Group, Sponsor Finance Group, Debt Capital Markets Group and Asset Based Lending product. He is chairman of the Commercial Management Team and vice chairman of the Specialty Loan Committee, and a member of the Senior Management Team, Asset and Liability Committee, Credit Policy Council and Corporate Loan Committee.