Our Mission

At Shur, we are building a comprehensive financial services platform to help millions of professionals with student loans move from debt to wealth. At the same time, we help banks, insurance companies, and financial advisory firms rediscover these strivers as a class of Americans needing access to prime financial products.

Meet our founder

Our founder Kahlil Byrd (KB) is a borrower. He carried over $100k in student loans after graduating from Morehouse College and Harvard Kennedy School. Along with his wife – a successful nonprofit CEO with a graduate degree – they navigated most of their professional lives together as public servants wrestling with almost a quarter million dollars in student debt. 

KB founded Shur in 2020, because he knew they were not alone. Like millions of borrowers, they did the right things financially – but were getting nowhere with creating family wealth. Major financial institutions weren’t designing the top-tier products and services needed to traverse the financial period critical to get right for financial wellness: from early career, through to the mid-30s.

Shur is the solution – and has the potential to help millions of borrowers turn their earliest financial decisions into the building blocks for financial wellness and generational wealth.

Meet Our Founder

Our founder Kahlil Byrd (KB) is a borrower. He carried over $100k in student loans after graduating from Morehouse College and Harvard Kennedy School. Along with his wife – a successful nonprofit CEO with a graduate degree – they navigated most of their professional lives together as public servants wrestling with almost a quarter million dollars in student debt. 

KB founded Shur in 2020, because he knew they were not alone. Like millions of borrowers, they did the right things financially – but were getting nowhere with creating family wealth. Major financial institutions weren’t designing the top-tier products and services needed to traverse the financial period critical to get right for financial wellness: from early career, through to the mid-30s.

Shur is the solution – and has the potential to help millions of borrowers turn their earliest financial decisions into the building blocks for financial wellness and generational wealth.

Shur Partners & Investors

Shur Partners & Investors

Shur Values

Upward-Mobility

Student loan borrowers are worthy and capable of long-term financial success. We work on their behalf every day.

Inclusivity

The right team draws from racial, gender, regional, and economic diversity, and we do the hard work to build that team.

Solution-Oriented

We work through the obstacles and we do not get distracted or deterred from our Mission.

Innovation

We leverage data and experience from the sector, we innovate and learn from failure, and we drive success for borrowers.

Transparency

We are honest, authentic, and fully transparent with all borrowers, investors, partners, and each other.

Your journey.
Our mission.

Founder & CEO Kahlil Byrd (KB) discusses Shur’s focus on supporting companies, city governments and membership organizations that are poised to help millions of professionals with student loans turn their earliest financial decisions into the building blocks for wealth creation.

Shur Team

Leveraging our team’s deep-rooted knowledge of fintech and the invaluable insights of our seasoned entrepreneurs, data analysts, and insurance experts, our team is passionate about creating a unique financial services company to move millions of Student Loan Borrowers from debt to wealth creation.

Kahlil Byrd

Founder & CEO

Bart Holzer

CTO & CSO

Arcineé Hermiston

Advisor – Credit, Banking, Risk

Michael Allegretti

Chief Strategy Officer

Travis Bunner

Senior Data Advisor | Chief Data Scientist, Exemplar Analytics

Scott Landheer

Creative Director

Nathan Kurtz

Head of Insurance | Director of Client Experience at Baldwin Risk Partners

Tiffani Hutton

Director of Operations

Justin McAnaney

General Counsel | Partner, Scale LLP

Board of Directors

Joshua S. Levine

Cofounder, Obedio; Fmr. CTO, E*Trade, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank; Fmr. FINRA Board Member

Margaret Richardson

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, GoFundMe; AirBnB, Apple; Chief of Staff, Obama DOJ

Advisors

Air Force Major General (R), President, Tuskegee University; Fmr. COO of Federal Student Aid — US Department of Education 

Global Co-Head, Capital Structure Advisory, Moelis

Chief Executive Officer, Kauffman Fellows; General Partner, Matterscale Ventures

Fmr. COO/CIO, Learning Ally; Fmr. CIO, SVP, Leader Technology and Operations, Dun & Bradstreet

Chairman (Ret.), Prudential Insurance Growth Markets; Fmr. Chairman, Prudence Foundation (Prudential’s Impact Arm); Fmr. Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer for AIG

General Counsel — Insurance Americas, AXA XL

Director of Community Relations, Edward Jones; Fmr. President, Equifax Foundation & CSR Leader