Executive Team
Cary KatzChairman
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of College Loan Corporation
Viet Dinh
President
Georgetown University Professor of Law and former Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy at U.S. Department of Justice
Stacie D. Rumenap
Executive Director
Former Deputy Director for the American Conservative Union
Lizette Benedi
Counsel
Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Office of Justice Programs at U.S. Department of Justice
Robert LaBreche
Director
President of Consumer Marketing of College Loan Corporation
Elizabeth Wood
Treasurer
Chief Financial Officer of College Loan Corporation
Cary Katz
Chairman
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of College Loan Corporation
Cary Katz is Chief Executive Officer of College Loan Corporation. Since founding the Company in September 1999, Katz has led the Company on an ambitious and successful growth track. Under Katz's leadership, the Company has become the nation's 7th largest provider of federal education loans.
Katz's career has been primarily focused in the student loan industry. Most recently, he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ELA Corporation. Recognized for his entrepreneurial ambition and operational expertise, Katz played an integral role in every aspect of that business.
Katz graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in Business Administration. He and his wife, Jackie, have six children.
Viet Dinh
President
Georgetown University Professor of Law and former Assistant Attorney General
for Legal Policy at U.S. Department of Justice.
Viet D. Dinh is founder and principal of Bancroft Associates PLLC. He is Professor of Law and Co-Director of Asian Law & Policy Studies at the Georgetown University Law Center. He serves on the Board of Directors of News Corporation, where he is also Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee. Dinh previously served as U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003. In that capacity, Dinh conducted a comprehensive review and revision of Department of Justice priorities, policies and practices to ensure that all available resources are dedicated to protecting America against terrorist acts. He played a key role in developing the USA Patriot Act and revising the Attorney General's Guidelines, which govern federal law enforcement activities and national security investigations.
Dinh holds or has held positions on the boards of Liberty's Promise, the American Judicature Society, the Transition Committee for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools, and the ABA Section on Administrative Law. He previously served as Associate Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee, Special Counsel to Senator Pete V. Domenici for the Impeachment Trial of the President, and counsel to the Special Master in the Austrian and German Bank Holocaust Litigation.
Dinh graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was a Class Marshal, Olin Research Fellow in Law and Economics, and Bluebook editor of Harvard Law Review. He clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Stacie D. Rumenap
Executive Director
Former Deputy Director for the American Conservative Union
Prior to joining Stop Child Predators, Stacie D. Rumenap served as the Deputy Director for the American Conservative Union (ACU), the nation's oldest and largest conservative grassroots issue-advocacy organization, where she directed the ACU's annual Conservative Political Action Conference and served as one of the group's principle lobbyists.
Rumenap has also served as the Executive Director for both U.S. Term Limits and the National Center for Growth, and has worked on Capitol Hill.
Rumenap currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the America's Future Foundation and the Initiative & Referendum Institute, and holds a leadership position with the Junior League of Washington. Rumenap is a former board member of the Georgia State Society.
Rumenap received her M.A. in Legislative Affairs from George Washington University and her B.A. in Journalism from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
Lizette Benedi
Project Director
Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Office of Justice Programs at U.S. Department of Justice.
Lizette D. Benedi served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice from April 2004 to May 2005, where she worked to improve the criminal and juvenile justice systems, assist crime victims, and increase knowledge about crime and related issues.
Prior to her appointment at the Office of Justice Programs, Benedi served for three years as Counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she was primarily responsible for judicial nominations and coordination of policy in the areas of the federal judiciary, victims' rights and federal prisons.
Previously, she served as a member of the research faculty of George Mason University School of Law. Benedi received her J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Robert LaBreche
Director
President of Consumer Marketing of College Loan Corporation
Robert LaBreche is President of Consumer Marketing of College Loan Corporation. LaBreche has been with the company since its inception and is responsible for consumer direct sales and marketing functions. He has been a key contributor to the company's phenomenal growth to date.
LaBreche has an established track record of producing results, and his successes reflect his ability to build, operate, and maintain a high-performance direct-to-consumer sales organization.
Prior to joining College Loan Corporation, LaBreche was Director of Sales and Recruiting for Educational Finance Group where he was instrumental in recruiting, training and managing over 100 employees. His achievements at that company included a ten-fold increase in loan volume during his tenure. Prior to joining the education lending industry, LaBreche worked in other financial verticals on Wall Street and for private off-street firms.
LaBreche holds a B.S. in both Marketing and Personnel Relations from the Syracuse University School of Management.
Elizabeth Wood
Treasurer
Chief Financial Officer of College Loan Corporation
Elizabeth Wood is the Chief Financial Officer of College Loan Corporation. Wood is responsible for finance, accounting and risk management for the Company.
Formerly a partner in the CPA firm of Weiss, Redington & Company, LLP, she has fifteen years experience providing audit services and advising corporate executives operating within a variety of industries, including several student loan companies. For more than two years, she was an active consultant to College Loan Corporation's senior management, advising on various strategic business initiatives before joining the Company. These experiences, coupled with her long-standing relationship with the Company, make her an integral part of College Loan Corporation's senior management team.
Wood is a licensed certified public accountant (CPA) and certified fraud examiner (CFE). She received her B.A. from the University of Colorado.