Tess Michaels

Chief Executive Officer

• Serial entrepreneur 

• Goldman Sachs

• Vista Equity

• MBA, Harvard Business School

• Impact Investing at Wharton​

David Kafafian

Chief Operating Officer

• Serial entrepreneur - Early entrant into ISA space

• Investment banking at JPMorgan

• Senior Watson Analytics Consultant at IBM

• Harvard Law School graduate

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Jan Jaro

Senior Manager, Partnerships & Finance

• ISAs and tech employment pathways at Opportunity@Work

• 2 years of consulting at Strategy& and 2 years of private equity at H.I.G. Capital

• Northwestern Industrial Engineering & Economics

Ellyse Spromberg

Customer Success Associate

• 5+ years of customer support

• Graduate from Arizona State University

• Organizer for ASU 2019 PowHer conference

Brendan Florez

Senior Technology Consultant

• Serial entrepreneur 

• Early entrant into ISA space as founder of Base Capital

• Former CEO of Lumni USA 

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Patrick J. Conner

Chief Revenue Officer

• Student financing veteran   

• 20+ years managing student loan portfolios at banks (Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Santander)

• Early hire at SoFi

Scott Russian

Director of Finance

• Finance Executive and Credit Expert

• Liberty Mutual Insurance

• Intel Corporation

• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

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Aidan O'Gara

Data Scientist

• Predictive income and financial models expert

• AI Researcher

• Winner of Amazon's 2019 Alexa Hackathon

Regan Brady

Strategy & Finance

• Economics Research at Harvard 

• Market research and product development

• Consumer Investment Management at Goldman Sachs

Deborah Quazzo

• Managing Partner of GSV Ventures

• Investor in Coursera, CampusLogic, Degreed

• 16 years investment banking at Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan

Tina Sharkey

• Founder of Brandless (raised ~$300mm in venture funding)

• Serial entrepreneur

• Expert on D2C branding and community building

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Dre Bennin

• CEO of Juvo Ventures

• Managing Director at Strada Education 

Max P. Michaels

• Former Head of IBM Networks

• Investment banking (Financial Institutions) at Morgan Stanley

• Strategist at McKinsey, Cisco, AT&T ​ ​

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Doug Levin

• Founder of Black Duck Software (sold to Synopsys for ~$550mm)

• Harvard / MIT Faculty

• Expert on software development