As a founder, CEO, and board director, Kahlil Byrd has successfully launched and scaled technology and data-enabled platforms across fintech and national politics. Byrd is a thought leader in cross-partisan politics, electoral reform, technology & data, and social impact.

He is the founder and CEO of Shur, a financial services company and the national authority on the complex financial lives and unique economic challenges of America's 45 million student loan borrowers. The company promotes generational wealth by helping borrowers move from debt to wealth creation -- while building new revenue paths for banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions.

For a decade, Byrd led Invest America, which he founded, a technology and advisory firm focused on solving major societal problems using data, research, strategy, organizational design, and product development. Previously, he was the founding CEO of a national initiative to re-imagine the presidential nominating process by leveraging data and technology for hundreds of thousands of users. The organization - Americans Elect - deployed more than $45 million and had 8,000 staff and volunteers, won the 2012 People’s Choice Award at South by Southwest, and two CLIO Awards for content and interactive excellence.

Byrd is an active member of the board of the venture-backed voting platform Voatz, and With Honor; on the Steering Committee (Board) of Leadership Now Project and the Advisory Board of the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget’s FixUs Initiative. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served with CFR as an International Affairs Fellow. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and Harvard Kennedy School.

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