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Jason Hurt

Actor

Aug 12, 2026

10:25
Jay, could you offer some insights about that event, sort of how we pulled it off, who participated, and just your overall takeaways from the event?
10:39
Sure.
10:39
So, yeah, the Student Lending Forum, the goal there was to convene a wide range of stakeholders in the student lending area to present them with some of the current issues and current problems ongoing in the industry and to engage a conversation.
11:02
And we got exactly what we were looking for.
11:04
So, yeah.
11:05
We had folks from government.
11:08
We had folks from, so again, different oversight functions within the government.

8 MINS LATER

19:08
What's ahead and how are you selling the center? How are you encouraging people to get involved? Start with you, Jay, and we'll wrap up with
8:15
So Jay, can you explain what that means? Sure.
8:18
So in 2018, that's when I left federal employment, and I went to Grant Thornton.
8:24
In fact, I don't know.
8:27
I've mentioned this to Crystal.
8:29
I haven't talked to a lot of other people.
8:31
I was looking at Crystal's firm possibly at one point, but ended up with Grant Thornton.
8:37
And so starting in 2018, we were competitors.

7 MINS LATER

16:06
And from there, you know, Jay and I continued to see each other in the office, always, you know, great experiences and work together on opportunities and just be able to, you know, collaborate even more because we were at the same company, which was really great.

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