Frank McKelvey is co-founder and Managing Director of Cordjia and the partner responsible for overseeing Cordjia Private Equity. He is also actively involved in Cordjia Business Advisory Services, the firm’s specialty consulting practice.

Prior to founding Cordjia, Frank was a Vice Chairman of MBNA America (acquired by Bank of America) and served as a member of the company’s management committee, loan quality committee and personnel committee. In his 22 years with the world’s largest independent credit card issuer, he held numerous executive-level positions in Marketing, Sales, Loan Quality, Operations, Administration and Strategic Planning.

Frank most recently had P&L responsibility for MBNA’s largest co-branded sector ($12 billion in loans), which included major partners such as the NFL, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, L.L.Bean and AAA. As part of the bank’s diversification strategy, he had previously managed MBNA’s emerging growth businesses, including Small Business Lending, Aircraft Lending, Mortgage Lending and Dental Practice Financing and served on the board of MBNA Delaware Bank, the subsidiary housing all non-consumer credit card lending. Frank was the executive responsible for leading MBNA’s start-up activities in both Canada and Ireland and also oversaw MBNA’s six regional business development offices in the United States, which generated more than half of the bank’s new affinity credit card accounts. At various times, Frank headed up the company’s Consumer Deposits ($30 billion), Customer Satisfaction (5,000 people), Customer Retention, Loan Quality and global Personnel divisions.

In addition to serving on the board of directors of several of Cordjia’s portfolio companies, Frank serves as either an outside director or board advisor to several unaffiliated companies.