Castle Pines Capital

Castle Pines Capital was a privately held channel finance company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, that provided innovative billing, payments, reconciliation, and short-term financing solutions to technology vendors and their reseller customers. Founded in 2004 by John Schmidt, Mike Gallagher, and Chuck Lillis, the company grew to manage over $25 billion in transactions before being acquired by Wells Fargo Capital Finance in July 2011, where it became the foundation of Wells Fargo's Supply Chain Finance division. The company received a $56 million financing from FTV Capital in 2009 to support its international expansion into Latin America and Western Europe.