Marc J. Crady

As Chief Credit Officer, Marc leads the vision, development and implementation strategy of Farmer Mac’s credit policy and guidelines to ensure they are reflective of the company’s business strategy, overall risk appetite, and mission-focused philosophy of increasing the availability and affordability of credit for the benefit of American agriculture and rural communities.

Marc has more than 25 years of experience in commercial lending, principal investing, and management consulting across a number of industries, including food and agribusiness. His commercial lending experience includes managing and underwriting relationships across a spectrum of structures, investor bases, and sizes, including bilateral, syndicated, pro-rata, Term Loan B, asset-based, leveraged, sponsored, workout, middle-market, and corporate.

Marc joined Farmer Mac in March 2021 after most recently working for Fifth Third Bank, where he was a Managing Director and spent more than a decade in its Food & Agribusiness and Leveraged Finance groups. He held roles across the commercial bank, including relationship management, business development, sponsor coverage, underwriting, and portfolio management. He led the Leveraged Finance Portfolio Management group starting at the onset of and through the depths of the recession caused by COVID-19.

Marc earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Indiana University and an MBA in management & strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.