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Mr. Carwile handles client and transaction management, as well as day-to-day engagement execution for the firm. Mr. Carwile joined SL Capital Strategies in 2014. He has been active in lending, financial advisory, investment banking and capital markets for over 37 years, including nearly 20 years at RBC Capital Markets, where he served as Managing Director. During his banking and financial advisory career, Mr. Carwile has provided a variety of financial services including capital formation, capital markets advisory, securities issuance, asset and company valuation, merger and acquisition advisory, asset sale advisory, lending platform design and development, strategic planning and management consulting. His client base has included state-based student loan organizations, finance companies, fintechs, banks and other lending institutions, loan guaranty companies, loan servicing organizations, specialty data companies, institutions of higher education, and loan collections firms.

Mr. Carwile has been a frequent speaker at finance industry associations and asset-backed finance conferences, and he has written articles for national and international finance publications. He is a graduate (BSBA) of the University of Arkansas and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the UALR Law Journal.

Mr. Belica has been with the firm since 2007. He handles client and transaction management, as well as day-to-day engagement execution for the firm. He also manages and oversees all of SLCS’s analytics functions. Prior to helping found SLCS, Mr. Belica worked in the Investment Banking Group at Citigroup with a focus on the student loan sector, where he was responsible for analytical work relating to client issuance of debt, M&A and whole loan sales. Mr. Belica was the chief interface with rating agencies and other professionals in connection with these assignments.

In all these assignments, Mr. Belica was responsible for transaction structuring, rating agency analytics, derivative strategies and ultimately coordination with trading desks on the initial pricing and ongoing remarketing of securities. Mr. Belica’s debt issuance experience spans the municipal, corporate and ABS markets, having executed transactions in every available mode in each sector. This experience serves him well at SLCS where he oversees all analytics of the firm and ensures that quantitative analysis for each client is up to the highest standard.

Since the founding of SLCS, Mr. Belica has served clients in a number of ways including acting as advisor on new debt issues, advising on M&A assignments, bond restructurings, private loan program development and capital markets financing, portfolio sales, and asset and liability valuations for financial statement purposes Mr. Belica is a graduate of Columbia University.

Greg O’Coyne serves as Vice President of Finance at Midwestern University, where he provides strategic leadership for the University’s financial operations, student enrollment strategy, and private and institutional loan programs. In this role, he oversees the full enrollment lifecycle from application to matriculation, including admissions processing, student finance, registrar functions, and institutional research and assessment. He is also responsible for ensuring compliance with the Higher Education Act (HEA) and leading the financial planning and analysis of the University. 

With more than twelve years of service to Midwestern University, Mr. O’Coyne has played a pivotal role in advancing the institution’s mission of healthcare education excellence. He has managed financing and refinancing transactions totaling more than $240 million and has extensive experience aligning fiscal strategy with enrollment objectives to support growth. His prior experience includes directing student financial aid, corporate finance, and compliance at a private post-secondary institution specializing in nursing and allied health education. 

Mr. O’Coyne began his career in 1999 with Ernst & Young’s Phoenix audit practice, specializing in financial statement audits of banks and financial institutions. He currently represents Midwestern University as a member of several organizations including the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, and the Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine’s Fiscal Officers Council. He holds a Master of Science in Data Analytics from Western Governors University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Information Systems from Arizona State University. Mr. O’Coyne is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Arizona.