This lender builds group cohesion by focusing on the individual

—STEVE GOLDBERG

FOR a company that offers unsecured loans and other financing-more than $7 billion to date-to doctors, lawyers, and architects, you’d figure that trust is important. And trust certainly suffuses the culture of Bankers Healthcare Group, a professional practice lender with headquarters in both Syracuse, New York, and Davie, Florida. Co-founder Eric Castro lived it in the Marine Corps, which he says emphasized the idea of “developing a level of trust through a certain level of vulnerability.” Castro now calls himself the “common sense officer” -co-founder Albert Crawford is chairman and CEO-which is kind of a promotion for the former grunt and M1 tank driver. “That experience gave me everything I needed,” he says, “to recognize what an ecosystem looks like in order to develop the type of bond that I had…

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