Kahlil Byrd
Cross-Partisan Solutions to Society’s Toughest Problems | Supporting Courageous Leadership Nationally.
- Role
- Board Member Senior Strategist at With Honor
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kahlil Byrd
As a founder, CEO, and board director, Kahlil Byrd (KB) has successfully launched and scaled technology and data-enabled platforms across fintech and national politics. KB is a thought leader in cross-partisan politics, innovation, investment, and social impact. He is the founder and CEO of Shur, a B2B2C fintech/insurtech deploying a comprehensive financial services platform connecting Professionals with Student Loans to the financial services industry. Shur’s company-sponsored financial wellness programs integrate alternative credit scoring, financial guidance, insurance, and banking. 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, KB led Invest America, 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 staff and volunteers, won the 2012 People’s Choice Award at South by Southwest, and two CLIO Awards for content and interactive excellence.KB serves on the board of the venture-backed voting platform Voatz. As well as the boards of democracy-focused organizations With Honor, UniteNY, and the Advisory Board of the Committee for a 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. KB graduated from Morehouse College and Harvard Kennedy School.KB and his wife Sarah, CEO of the national non-profit Women Moving Millions, live in Brooklyn.Shur site: https://getshur.com/Personal site:
Experience
Board Member Senior Strategist
Jan 2017 — Present
Cross-partisan movement dedicated to promoting and advancing principled veteran leadership in order to reduce polarization in Congress. Volunteer advisor and fiduciary board member since its founding.
Education
Morehouse College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science
Harvard Kennedy School
Master of Public Administration - MPA
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