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Vince Roig

Helios Education Foundation, Chairman

Vince Roig serves as chairman of the Board of the Foundation.  Prior to forming the Foundation, Mr. Roig was the Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of Southwest Student Services Corporation and its affiliates for over twenty years.  Southwest was a full service provider of student loan products and services to students, families and schools in Arizona, Florida and nationally.  While with Southwest, Mr. Roig was responsible for overall management and direction of Southwest and its affiliates and was the driving force behind its evolution from small secondary market to one of the largest independent student lender/servicers in the country.  In February 2004, the Board of Directors of Southwest and its affiliates, Arizona Educational Loan Marketing Corporation (AELMAC) and Florida Education Loan Marketing Corporation (FELMAC), elected to convert and reorganize the companies in order to create an education foundation.  To accomplish the reorganization, Southwest and FELMAC were merged into AELMAC and the resulting entity was renamed Helios Education Foundation.  All of the student loan operations of Southwest and its affiliates were transferred to a newly created for-profit Southwest Student Services Corporation, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Helios.  In a transaction effective October 15, 2004, Helios sold the stock of Southwest Student Services Corporation to SLM Corporation for just over $500 million.  The net proceeds of the sale funded Helios.

Before forming Southwest and its affiliates, Mr. Roig was a vice president for United Student Aid Funds (USA Funds), responsible for the administration of the Arizona Education Loan Program, the state-designated student loan guarantor for Arizona.  Mr. Roig serves or has served on the Boards of numerous organizations, including the Arizona College Scholarship Foundation, Arizona Health Facilities Authority, Education Finance Council, ELM Resources, Inc., Greater Phoenix Leadership, former Chairman of Life Teen International, National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Advisory Aviation Board, Take Stock in Children, Valley of the Sun United Way, and Valley of the Sun United Way Foundation.

Mr. Roig received his Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education from Athens College and his Master of Science in Secondary Education from Richmond College of the City University of New York.  Vince Roig and his wife Jane split their time between their homes in Scottsdale, Arizona and Naples, Florida.