Taige Thornton
President, Chief Executive Officer, Founded NorthStar Education Finance to provide a lower cost of financing higher education – with a focus on graduate student low cost higher education financing. NorthStar’s education lending program originated more than $8 billion of postsecondary education loans from 1997 to 2010 with borrower benefit arrangements where NorthStar pays the student’s federal government origination fees and rebates interest back to eligible borrowers, in the form of a repayment incentive. Since 1997, NorthStar has paid over $400M on behalf of its borrowers. The fee waivers and repayment rebates have shortened the total repayment periods of NorthStar’s education loan borrowers. A University of Iowa Graduate, Taige held executive roles as with First Bank System, Balcor/American Express, and Harris Trust and Savings Bank.
