
Financial Liberty for All Americans | Supporting Courageous Leadership Nationally | Cross-Partisan Solutions to Society’s Toughest Problems
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 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. 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: https://www.kahlilbyrd.com/
voatz.com
studentsfirst.org
cfr.org
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Founder and CEO
Shur
• www.linkedin.com/company/shurco
• Full-time
Jan 2020 - Present
New York City Metropolitan Area
Founder
Invest America
• www.linkedin.com/company/invest-america-fund
Jan 2012 - Present
New York, NY
Life Member
Council on Foreign Relations
• www.linkedin.com/company/council-on-foreign-relations
Jan 2019 - Present
Board Member | Senior Strategist
With Honor
• www.linkedin.com/company/withhonor
Jan 2017 - Present
Board Member
Voatz
• www.linkedin.com/company/voatz
Jan 2021 - Present
President
StudentsFirst
• www.linkedin.com/company/studentsfirst
Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
CEO, Board Member, and Co-Founder
Americans Elect
• www.linkedin.com/company/americans-elect
Jan 2009 - Dec 2013
Media & Politics: NGO Executive Director | NPR and BBC Producer
Politics, Public Service Media, and Public Broadcasting
Jan 1995 - Dec 2005
Washington, DC and Boston, MA
Investment Banking | Managment Consulting
Lehman Brothers and KPMG Management Consulting
Jan 1991 - Dec 1995
San Francisco and New York