Donna Sotolongo, Psy. D. – Managing Member

As Managing Member of SF Staffing, Donna has oversight responsibility for Recruiting, HR, and Payroll in addition to her executive functions. For the last 30 years, she has worked in the mental health and higher education fields. She has focused her attention in the past 10 years on addressing issues relevant to higher education, job training, and how to redeploy workers as well as to help transition them to new careers within New Jersey. Donna also heads StuFund Marketing, LLC, a company devoted to advising and consulting colleges and universities in all aspects of financial literacy and debt management.

Sergio Sotolongo – Managing Director

Sergio was formerly a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he spent 22 years in the capital markets, structured finance, syndicate and financial markets areas. He was Head of the International Sales desk. Additionally, he had management responsibility for various areas within the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Divisions. In 2006, he founded Student Funding Group, LLC, the first minority business enterprise student loan company which originated and bought $950 million in student loans over a four year period. He serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee to Wellbridge Capital, a private equity firm.

Peter Eppie – Managing Director

Peter has 30 years of experience in commercial real estate, both brokerage and development, working primarily with Fortune 500 companies.  Most recently, Peter has focused on consulting and business development activities in the financial services arena.  He has provided solutions for high compensation problems for key executives and corporations while focusing on executive/retirement solutions, executive benefits, private client services and corporate and individual life insurance.

Trish Green – EVP, Marketing

For 26 years, Trish worked with Columbia House, a then SONY subsidiary. During the last 7 years, she served as Senior Director of Advertising and Marketing.  As such, Trish brings a tremendous depth and wealth of knowledge in marketing within a direct-to-consumer environment. Her industry contacts are wide and deep.  Most recently, Trish has served as the Head of Marketing for Student Funding Group and has been responsible for the development and execution of all marketing efforts including website development, email and social media marketing, and print.

Erin Keavney – VP, Head of Human Capital Management

Erin has worked for many years in the patent law and intellectual property arenas.  She has extensive experience working with customers and promoting the team environment within the workplace.  For the past 7 years, Erin has been responsible for supervising the administrative staff, overlooking personnel and payroll, and supporting accounting projects.  In addition, Erin has overseen recruitment, hiring, and background screening for all personnel.

Vince Davis, VP Sales/Client Relations

Vince has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry with Shearson, Greenwich Street Advisors, Merrill Lynch, and Vanguard in the areas of Asset Management and Retirement Services.  Most recently, he has represented Sallie Mae and Student Funding Group, LLC (StuFund) in College Lending, Educational Finance and Counseling, becoming the leading salesman for StuFund in the tri-state area.  A results-driven relationship manager, Vince has successfully assisted clients in finding solutions towards developing organizational efficiencies and improving client service performance.

Nikkita White, Head of Recruitment

Nikkita is a professional Human Resources Specialist with an extensive background in corporate, pharmaceutical, and health arenas.  Her experience includes employee recruitment and retention, staff development, mediation, benefits and compensation, HR records management, HR policies development and legal compliance.  Nikkita has worked within large Fortune 500 companies and has served as a consultant to such companies.

Brian Sotolongo, VP, Portfolio Management

Brian is experienced in asset and account management.  He has been a member on the Conduit Straight-A Funding Asset Management Team at Student Funding Group.  He has monitored basis risk and assisted with valuation and risk management of the student loan portfolio. He also helps monitor movement of pricing and default experience in the portfolio. In addition, Brian has held advisory roles in the provision of various investment management services.