SWK Holdings Corporation announced that the company has promoted John David (J.D.) Tamas to Director of Underwriting, a newly created position at the company. Mr. Tamas was promoted to Director of Underwriting after joining SWK in February 2022 as aDirector. He was previously Vice President at NXT Capital /ORIX Leveraged Finance, where he focused principally on providing stretch and unitranche credit to privateequity sponsors in the lower- and middle- markets.

Prior to that, Mr. Tamas worked for Cotton Creek Capital, a middle-market privateequity firm. He began his career at Wachovia /Wells Fargo Securities within the Leveraged Finance Division. Mr. Tamas earned a BS degree in Finance, with Honors, from the University of Arkansas and an MBA in Finance, with Honors, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.