Lee A. Palm

Executive Vice-President, Commercial Finance

Lee A. Palm, is CapStar's Executive Vice-President and head of Commercial Finance, a newly created division of CapStar Bank engaged in making senior secured term loans for various types of equipment across multiple industries to include construction, transportation, franchise, manufacturing, mining, packaging and plastics.  He has more than 20 years of experience in the structured finance business, including the managing director role at Prudential Capital most recently.

Lee was the founder and president of GMAC's Equipment Finance Division where he started seven separate companies and $4 Billion in funded new business over seven years.  He also was a founder and senior executive of Transamerica Equipment Finance Services and previously held leadership roles at Heller and CIT.

Lee and his wife Christine and their daughter live in Brentwood, Tenn.