Leading Experts in Student Lending Experts

Martin Alpert is a Litigation Management Consultant at Alpert & Associates, a consulting firm, analyzing Mass Tort, M & A's, Class Actions, & Commercial transactions involving fortune 500 & over 2,500 select companies. He also works at Cambridge Integrated as a National Claim Director & was Claim...

Jeff Andrade is an Executive Vice President for U.S. Education Finance Group, a student loan lender based in Florida. He is an expert on higher education matters and has also been an advocate for educational reforms from early childhood to lifelong learning for adults. Previously, Mr. Andrade was Director...

Benjamin Hezz Barnhouse has been working as an independent Analyst/Consultant within the for-profit education sector since January 2008. Most recently he was the Vice President of Admissions, Marketing and Operations for a for-profit collegiate organization known as Herzing Colleges. Mr. Barnhouse joined...

Marianne Berry is a Managing Associate at Auriemma Consulting (ACG). ACG specializes in the credit, debit, and private label card markets. Ms. Berry has done research, marketing, and new product development at Fortune 100 companies, including HBO, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Chase Manhattan, and Verizon....

James Butler is the Managing Director of Rigley Financial, LLC, and the Senior Partner for Rigley Capital, LLC, an Illinois-based origination and consulting firm specializing in providing advisory services to Municipal, Governmental-Issues, Consumer, Energy, Commercial, and Mortgage industry-related...

Kathy Cannon is a California-based Independent Student Lending Consultant, currently working to develop competitive strategies to meet the rapidly changing student loan market. Previously, Ms. Cannon was the Senior Vice President and Head of Student Banking Services at Bank of America, where she was...

Paul Equale is the President of Equale & Associates, where he consults on financial services issues, including credit cards, subprime mortgages, GSEs Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, online gaming, state, federal legislative and regulatory insurance issues, as well as domestic and international political and...

Tom Ferrara is Chief Executive Officer at FF Ventures, an individual/small consultancy, where he has worked since May 2008. Previously, Mr. Ferrara was a Chief Executive Officer at www.CUnetCorp.com an advertising and professional services firm serving the For-Profit post-secondary education providers....

Jim Gathard, was until May 2008, a student lending executive at Bank of America, where he represented the product internally to consumer products groups and externally to key financing partners. Prior to Bank of America, he was a VP and Strategic Planning Executive for JPMorgan Chase Education Finance....

Martin Grossman is a member of the Career College Association and a consultant specializing in For-Profit Postsecondary Education. He was the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Investor Relations for ITT Educational Services, a company providing technical education services, until September of...

Steven Jacowitz is a Director at Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG), a consultancy specializing in the credit, debit, and private label card markets. Mr. Jacowitz has substantial expertise in the consumer credit business, including operations, collections, finance, strategy, and marketing. Prior to joining...

Robert Lavet is a Principal with Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, a Washington, DC law firm with practices in health care and education. Prior to joining Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, Mr. Lavet was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Sallie Mae from 2005 until 2008 and has held various...

Catriona Macdonald is the President of Linchpin Strategies in Washington, DC, which specializes in helping private businesses and grassroots organizations develop and present federal policy and legislative agendas. Ms. Macdonald has over ten years of experience in working in federal policy circles....

Raj Mehra is the President of Chelsea Advisory Services, a financial risk and forensic accounting advisory firm in Washington DC. He has over 21 years of experience in areas such as banking, subprime mortgages, credit card, auto and student lending. Mr. Mehra is an expert in securitization and structured...

Robert D. Moore was until March 2006, the President of Chase Education Finance. Chase Education Finance is the largest US student lender, serving over 2500 schools. Prior to serving as President of Chase Education Finance, Mr. Moore was the President of Bank One's Education Finance Group from 1996...

Mr. Morrow was until 2006 the Chief Executive Officer of Collegiate Funding Services (acquired by JPMorgan Chase Bank), and previously served as the Chief Operating Office from 2000 to 2002. He also served as the General Manager of Financial Services for the Office of Student Financial Assistance, a...

Sue Roberts is currently an independent consultant focusing on the student lending industry. She has over 19 years of senior management experience in student lending, and until May, 2007, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Student Capital Corporation, a subsidiary of College Loan Corporation. From...

Tracy Spicer is a Partner at Avenue Solutions, a Washington, DC based government relations firm which provides strategic legislative, policy and political expertise. She focuses on the healthcare arena and has played an integral role in some of the most prominent healthcare policy debates on Capitol...

Sandra Swirski is Co-Founder of Venn Strategies, a legislative affairs and political consulting firm in Washington, DC. She advises clients on a range of legislative issues including domestic and foreign corporate tax issues, pass-through entity tax issues, individual tax issues and pension issues....