Frank McKelvey

Mr. Frank McKelvey is a Managing Director, Partner & Co-Founder at Cordjia Private Equity LLC since 2008.
He is also actively involved in Cordjia Business Advisory Services, the firm’s specialty consulting practice.
In addition to serving on the board of directors of several of Cordjia’s portfolio companies, he serves as either an outside director or board advisor to several unaffiliated companies.
Mr. Frank McKelvey is a former Vice Chairman of MBNA America (Bank of America) and served as a member of the company’s management committee.
In his twenty-two years with the world’s largest independent credit card issuer he held numerous executive-level positions in Marketing, Sales, Operations, Administration and Strategic Planning.
He had responsibility for MBNA’s largest co-branded sector ($12 billion in loans) including partners such as the NFL, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, L.L.
Bean, and AAA.
He previously managed new growth businesses such as Small Business Lending, Aircraft Lending, and Dental Practice Finance and served on the board of MBNA Delaware Bank, the MBNA subsidiary housing all non-consumer credit card lending.
He was the executive responsible for leading the company’s start up activities in both Canada and Ireland and had also overseen MBNA’s six regional business development offices in the United States.
At various times he headed up the bank’s Personnel, Deposits, Customer Satisfaction, Retention and Loan Quality Divisions.