Benito Garza

The College Scholarship Leadership Access Program (CSLAP) believes every student can attend and graduate from a college or university. Based in the Rio Grande Valley, CSLAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that teaches college access classes during the instructional day, after school, and over the summer. CSLAP also provides one-on-one college coaching sessions, awards scholarships, and partners with community organizations to expand opportunities for students from all backgrounds.

We are operators turned investors, with deep experience creating and scaling transformative companies across multiple industries. Our flexible mandate enables opportunistic capital deployment without traditional allocation constraints, allowing us to build companies organically or invest strategically across sectors and asset classes. By leveraging our operational expertise within specialized credit markets, we generate equity-like returns through structured lending opportunities that traditional investors systematically misprice or avoid. We look for companies within healthcare and artificial intelligence, firmly believing these trends will benefit from people living longer, more robust health spans, and becoming more productive. Beyond direct equity investments, we actively pursue special situations including distressed debt in poorly capitalized businesses that, if restructured, can become industry-defining enterprises. Our expertise in identifying structural inefficiencies and executing operational turnarounds allows us to unlock value that others overlook. The firms capital structure enables patient, long-term partnerships with innovative companies across their lifecycle—from distressed repositioning to growth acceleration—while our sophisticated quantitative trading strategies provide additional market insights and returns that strengthen the overall investment platform.

Molina Healthcare is a FORTUNE 500 company that is focused exclusively on government-sponsored health care programs for families and individuals who qualify for government sponsored health care. Molina Healthcare contracts with state governments and serves as a health plan providing a wide range of quality health care services to families and individuals. Molina Healthcare offers health plans in Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Molina also offers a Medicare product and has been selected in several states to participate in duals demonstration projects to manage the care for those eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare.

Bank of America is one of the worlds largest financial institutions, serving individuals, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company serves approximately 56 million U.S. consumer and small business relationships. It is among the worlds leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/32FDdQr. For account issues, please visit: https://bit.ly/2GeTIeP.

The College Scholarship Leadership Access Program (CSLAP) believes every student can attend and graduate from a college or university. Based in the Rio Grande Valley, CSLAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that teaches college access classes during the instructional day, after school, and over the summer. CSLAP also provides one-on-one college coaching sessions, awards scholarships, and partners with community organizations to expand opportunities for students from all backgrounds.