Lending Team

Professional Affiliations

• San Francisco ACG
• San Francisco TMA

Education

• M.B.A., University of Toledo
• B.A., Miami University

Mr. Claus is a Director in the Leveraged Finance Group at CapitalSource. He is responsible for originating new loans in the Western United States across the entire CapitalSource platform including Commercial Finance, Structured Finance, and Healthcare Finance. New loans are originated directly from private equity investors, corporate finance intermediaries and bankers, as well as other lenders. Mr. Claus has been at CapitalSource since its inception in 2000 and has 24 years of commercial banking and corporate finance experience working with middle-market companies and private equity investors originating leveraged finance transactions, limited partnership investments in private equity funds, private debt placements, real estate loans, trade finance transactions, and cash management services.

Prior to joining CapitalSource, Mr. Claus originated and underwrote leveraged finance transactions for private equity investors at Union Bank of California. He also held business development positions at Bank of America Business Credit and Bank of America Commercial Banking Division. Mr. Claus began his banking career with Wells Fargo Bank's Commercial Banking Division.

Professional Contributions

• 2008 San Francisco ACG Capital Conference–Speaker