Kenneth Bryant:  

After graduating from Florida State in 1988, I joined EDS and begain working in the field of Higher Education/Student Lending. I spent time in Tallahassee, FL working with the State of Florida Guaranty Agency for the FFEL Program before moving to Jacksonville, FL in 1989 to take a position with a third party servicing agency. After almost 7 years, I left them to join KPMG LLP where I was an audit Manager conducting audits on lenders, schools, and third party servicing agencies participating in the FFEL Program. It was a great learning experience, although being on the road 60% of the time had its moments. While with KPMG, I also received my Masters in Accounting through the University of Phoenix On-Line Degree program. I also met my first long term partner in Jacksonville on July 4th, 1995 and we were together for about 10.5 years. In 2004, I left FL to move to Washington, DC to...Expand for more