Oak Street Funding Forms Advisory Council

INDIANAPOLIS, IN--(Marketwired - Jul 30, 2013) -  Oak Street Funding (www.oakstreetfunding.com), the nation's leading lender for insurance professionals, announced it has formed an Advisory Council comprised of insurance industry leaders who will provide Oak Street Funding with insight and guidance as the company continues its rapid growth.

"There are many changes taking place in the insurance industry and we want to ensure that Oak Street Funding is developing the funding products and services agents need to buy, grow and sell their agencies," said Rick Dennen, CEO of Oak Street Funding. "We anticipate that members of our Advisory Council will provide important input that helps us shape Oak Street Funding's future strategy."

Members of the Oak Street Funding Advisory Council include:

• Tom Gillingham, owner/CEO of EverGuard, a Seattle-based program manager that helps retail insurance agents place business with highly-rated carriers.
  
  
• Eric Hall, executive vice president of The Rough Notes Company, a producer of products and services for the insurance professional.
  
  
• John Hayden, retired chairman/CEO of American Modern, a specialty insurance provider.
  
  
• John Koko, CEO of BAAI Insurance, an agency offering individual and small group health insurance.
  
  
• Richard Pitbladdo, owner/CEO of LTC Global, a leader in providing capital, sales and marketing solutions to the Long Term Care insurance industry.
  
  
• Jim Roe, owner/CEO, Arlington Roe, a managing general agency his father founded in 1964.
  

Advisory Council members will meet several times a year.

About Oak Street Funding
Carmel, Ind.-based Oak Street Funding (www.oakstreetfunding.com) is a family of diversified financial services companies that offers commission-based commercial financing exclusively for insurance professionals and third-party loan servicing for financial institutions. Oak Street Funding utilizes industry knowledge, proprietary technology and passion to deliver top-quality service and capital products to insurance and finance professionals nationwide. Oak Street Funding was recognized as a 2012 Indiana Company to Watch. The company can be found on Twitter @OSFunding and on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/oak-street-funding.