Daniel Rogers

Daniel is the CEO and Co-Founder of A.M. Money a venture capital backed startup focused on providing accessible and affordable financing products for college students.

Daniel created A.M. because of the challenges he had paying for college. After graduating from Kenwood Academy on Chicago’s south side, Daniel enlisted in the US Army. Over the next 4.5 years, he completed 2 years of college courses, including 7 online courses while deployed to Iraq as a Team Leader for Recon Units in Fallujah and Mosul.

After his time in the Army, Daniel transferred to American University in D.C. where he found immediate success with a 3.98 GPA in his first quarter of full-time studies. However, when he showed up for his second quarter he was told without $16,000 he would have to drop-out.

His mother was unable to support him or co-sign on a loan, and he had to resort to asking his grandmother in a nursing home to co-sign instead.

He is focused on ensuring that no one else has to go through that experience.

After graduating, Daniel became a Foreign Affairs Officer in the U.S. State Department focused on political stabilization and economic development in war-torn societies. He later went on to get his MBA in Analytical Finance from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and has had business roles at Uber Technologies, and Deutschebank.