Corporate Governance

Founder and CEO:
Mary Claire Reinstadtler

Visionary by Design, Forward-Thinker, Creative Geist, Leader by Passion, Innovating for the Future, Attuned to the Zeitgeist, Strategic Thinker, Effective Communicator, Dynamic Maneuverer, Curious Professional, Ardent Educator, Fast Mover, Adaptable Guide, Process Owner, Resilient Empath, Nerdy about Life-Long Learning and Personal Growth.

An economist and business manager by profession, Ms. Reinstadtler has over 25 years of working experience, 20 of those in management, senior management and executive roles. She has spent her career in a variety of leadership roles in banking and finance, and in international and economic development internationally. She has held management roles spearheading organizational development, startup and growth from concept, founding through funding, implementation, operational and business development, product and service development, completion, closure, monitoring and evaluation. Additionally, she worked in senior advisory or consulting roles, policy and stewardship roles such as CEO/ Managing Director, Board Member or Management running operations of new or existing MSME-oriented commercial banks. The clients, partners, investors or shareholders in the international development projects she worked for over the last few years were always multilateral and bilateral organizations as well as foundations such as World Bank, IFC (International Finance Corporation, KFW (German Bank for Reconstruction and Development), European Investment Bank (EIB), GIZ (German Agency for International Development), EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Gates Foundation, and the Dutch DOEN Foundation among others. Ms. Reinstadtler has direct experience setting up SME-oriented commercial and universal banks from scratch. For example; setting up a greenfield bank, AccessBank Liberia as part of the banking group AccessHolding AG, Germany; holding stewardship roles such as CEO, Managing Director or Board Member of that same bank or similar existing commercial banks for the banking group ProCredit Holding AG, Germany, for example, ProCredit Bank Ghana (now Fidelity Bank Ghana), ProCredit Bank Albania or serving as Board Director of ProCredit Bank Sierra Leone (now EcoBank), all banks that provided financing opportunities to the lower end of the market not served by traditional commercial banks.
She also worked in diplomatic roles for the German Agency for International Development (GIZ) as a Senior Policy Advisor on Sustainable Economic Development and Private Sector Development issues. In this role, she advised central banks, commercial banks, microfinance institutions as well as consumer protection and financial literacy agencies among others. Most recently, she worked as a Business Manager in the Wholesale Banking division at ING-DiBa AG, ING Bank in Germany - a European digital and agile bank. This bank division handled clients with an annual revenue of >EUR 250 million. She has extensive experience working with other major German commercial banks, fund management firms, investment & private equity companies as well as research agencies in Germany. These include Deutsche Bank AG, Commerzbank AG, Henderson Global Investors, TRW-WEFA Treasury Operations, Global Insight etc. She founded COLOURS GLOBAL (http://coloursglobal.com/), a black/minority/woman-owned international development consulting firm that doubles as an innovative and disruptive tech startup. As a versatile skilled manager and passionate leader experienced in operational, technical and policy management, she has led the development of strategies and projects to initiate and manage projects, identify and drive growth opportunities supported by rigorous research, analysis and resource mobilization. She holds an MSc. International and Development Economics & Finance and a BSc. Economics and Business Management, both from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-claire-reinstadtler-b646146/

Steve Reinstadtler

Steve Reinstadtler is the Founder & CEO of SR Capital Advisors based in New York, USA. He has over 30 years of private equity experience, starting with an early-stage investment in what is now T-Mobile, and more recently helping to create J5 Infrastructure Partners, a leading provider of infrastructure related services to wireless carriers in the Western U.S. Steve has sponsored and/or managed seventeen private equity investments and has served on the Boards of Directors of nine companies.
Steve held a partner level role at TD Capital from 1995 to 2004, and was appointed Co-Head of the New York office. TD Capital was the private equity and mezzanine arm of the TD Bank Financial Group. During Steve’s tenure, his group deployed approximately $1 billion in private equity and mezzanine investments. Steve focused on the telecom sector at TD Capital, investing in wireless carriers, communications towers and cable television operators.
Steve has been a partner at SR Capital since 2004, with responsibility for managing the TD portfolio and sponsoring new deals in partnership with our network of institutional investors.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan and Master of Science in Finance and Economics from MIT. Steve currently sits on the Boards of Directors of Guidemark Health, Bluespire Marketing, Digital Media Services, and J5 Infrastructure Partners.
http://www.sr-capital.com/our-team/

Dr. Rogers Wod' Olobo Okot-Uma (PhD)

Dr. Okot-Uma is an expert in information and technology systems. He is a STEM expert, professor, researcher, author, historian, and services professional. His career at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London spanned several decades. He is the founder and proprietor of Studies Forum International (SFI), which includes SFI Academy, SFI Publishing, and SFI Consulting. SFI Consulting provides consulting and advisory services to a broad range of clientele in, among others, the areas of IT, ICT4D, Public Sector Informatics, and Electronic Governance. SFI Academy focuses on Mathematics, Physics, ICT4D, and Luo EthnoHistory. Dr. Okot-Uma has written and published many literary and academic works in these fields. He was selected as Top CEO in Mathematics Sector by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP), for his outstanding leadership and commitment to the field. He is completing a widely researched body of work, an 8-volume book series and historical masterpiece, that covers five millennia of the Nilotic Luo Ethnic Origin, Migration and Settlement along the Nile valley. This body of work set to be released in June 2024 is titled, ``The Luo: Truly Out of the Nile - A synoptic Synthesis of the Nilotic Luo History and The Ethno-Historical Luo Heritage of Barack Obama.``
https://www.prdistribution.com/news/dr-rogers-okot-uma-selected-as-top-ceo-of-the-year-in-mathematics-by-the-international-association-of-top-professionals-iaotp/2688975

Julie Borden

Julie Borden is a Senior Software Engineer with more than 30 years of experience providing software engineering support across industries, with particular expertise in designing and delivering technology solutions to business problems of major financial service institutions. Skilled in managing and troubleshooting critical, complex applications, including those that processed $.5T per day and those involving thousands of objects. Accomplished in supporting every phase of a project’s lifecycle, from requirements gathering through development and implementation. Technical proficiencies include Java, DB2, Sybase, and Oracle. Others further include Application Development, Application Design, Data Modeling, Software Evaluation, Project Management and EMS Messaging. She is a Certified ScrumMaster with Scrum Alliance. She has experience working for major global companies such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Citibank and NetWest Markets.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julieborden/

Mary Claire Reinstadtler

An economist and business manager by profession, Ms. Reinstadtler has over 25 years of working experience in a variety of leadership roles in banking, finance, investment and in international and economic development internationally.
She has held management roles spearheading organizational development, startup and growth from concept, founding through funding, implementation, operational and business development, product and service development, completion, closure, monitoring and evaluation.
Additionally, working in senior advisory or consulting roles, policy and stewardship roles such as CEO/ Managing Director, Board Member or Management running operations of new or existing MSME-oriented commercial banks. She holds an MSc. International and Development Economics & Finance and a BSc. Economics and Business Management, both from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Caroline “Kay” Reinstadtler

A pioneer in the field of supply chain management, Kay Reinstadtler began developing warehouse management software in the early 1980s when punch cards were still in use, and she proved to be a very talented coder and project manager.
She began her career at Peters Township-based Alpha & Omega, where she played a key role in building an industry-leading technology platform that was acquired by GENCO in 1997. Kay continued her career as a Project Manager at GENCO, traveling the country to launch new warehouse operations for major retailers and brands including Levi Strauss & Co. GENCO was acquired by Fedex and rebranded as Fedex Supply Chain in 2015, one year after Kay's retirement.
She was passionate about her work, and she reluctantly retired at the age of 78 after a 30-year career spent helping to grow a small startup into one of the largest third-party logistics management companies in North America.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics specializing in French and Spanish and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Alec Reinstadtler

Co-founder and Vice President, Business Development at Loan Science, LLC
Financial Services sales executive with 25+ years of experience building and leading national sales teams in the student lending industry.
His career has been built in the higher education market. He has a deep understanding of how colleges and universities identify problems, and decide how to solve those problems. He has worked for regional and money center banks, specialty finance companies and since 2008 he has been an entrepreneur.
His specialties include sales strategy development and execution, higher education sales and sales management, private student lending product development, and competitor analysis.

Christopher Reinstadtler

With over 20 years of experience in government and the private sector, Chris is a specialist in public health management and creating a political and civil context in US/ NATO national security. He has extensive international development experience. Chris is experienced in program leadership, strategic analysis, and financial analysis. With strong quantitative skills going back to his education, he has run surveys, monitoring and impact evaluations for the World Bank, worked for USAID, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), US Department of Defense subcontractors across several continents. He holds a Master of Public Policy, Finance & Economics and a BA Political Science & Economics, both from University of Michigan. During this time, he also attended the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to study Economics and Government for one year.

Mary Claire Reinstadtler

An economist and business manager by profession, Ms. Reinstadtler has over 25 years of working experience in a variety of leadership roles in banking, finance, investment and in international and economic development internationally.
She has held management roles spearheading organizational development, startup and growth from concept, founding through funding, implementation, operational and business development, product and service development, completion, closure, monitoring and evaluation.
Additionally, working in senior advisory or consulting roles, policy and stewardship roles such as CEO/ Managing Director, Board Member or Management running operations of new or existing MSME-oriented commercial banks. She holds an MSc. International and Development Economics & Finance and a BSc. Economics and Business Management, both from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.