Clark McGhee
Co-Founder, President and CEO

25 years of marketing, operational, retail and student loan leadership expertise with both growth-oriented and Fortune 500 organizations.  Executive roles with SunTrust (and its predecessor, Crestar Financial), Servus Financial, a Wells Fargo education credit subsidiary, Collegiate Funding Services, a publicly traded education company, JPMorgan Chase and Campus Door, an education credit corporation.

Larry Teal
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer

17 years of information-based marketing and financial leadership experience in the consumer financial services, internet and management consulting spaces.  Progressively responsible leadership positions at Premier Incorporated, Capital One, Collegiate Funding Services, JPMorgan Chase, Earthlink and Campus Door, an education credit corporation.

Steve Fletcher
Chief Financial Officer

26 years of operational and financial leadership experience in financial services, including asset liability management and financial planning, consumer lending, and retail branch management and operations.  Executive roles with SunTrust (and its predecessor, Crestar Financial), Collegiate Funding Services, and LandAmerica Financial Group.

Adam C. Barkstrom, CFA
Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Business Development

Over 20 years of financial services expertise in equity research, investment banking and with the Federal Reserve system. Prior to joining GradCapital Adam was a Managing Director in equity research with Sterne Agee and Stifel Nicolaus/Legg Mason capital markets providing equity research coverage of the banking industry. Prior to joining Legg Mason, Adam was a Vice President in corporate finance at Scott & Stringfellow where he provided investment banking and financial advisory services to community banks in the southeast. Adam was also a Co-director of the Capital Markets group for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and was responsible for monitoring and overseeing the ongoing risk management, with particular emphasis placed on interest rate risk, funding strategies and trading operations of the most intricately structured financial institutions located within the 5th Federal Reserve District. Adam holds a BS in Business Administration from the College of Charleston and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Marvin Ragland
Executive Vice President, Relationship Management

32 years of higher education and student lending expertise.  Leadership roles at Longwood University, Virginia State Education Assistance Authority, Suntrust (and its predecessor, Crestar Financial), Wells Fargo, Sallie Mae, Collegiate Funding Services and JPMorgan Chase.