Alexander Bigbie, M.A.
Founder & EXecutive Director
Alexander Bigbie started running small programs to help individuals in vulnerable communities with their financial literacy in 2017. The enormous scale of the financial inequities facing families and communities and the lack of available resources led him to the conclusion that he needed to found an nonprofit that was capable of meeting these challenges. This led to the formation of Flyte (Financial Learning You Take Everywhere) in 2018.
Bigbie has worked with over 300 Black-owned small businesses in New Orleans with Flyte, as well as through his work as a finance consultant for Propeller Incubator and Fund17. He sits on the board of Art Camp504 and the finance committee of Fund17.
Bigbie is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business and New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute Programs. He was also selected as one of Gambit Magazine’s 40 Under 40 in 2023.
Bigbie moved to New Orleans from London in Jan 2017, after 5 years of working in financial services with Barclays plc, leaving as an Associate Director in their Corporate and Investment Bank.
He holds a Masters degree in English Literature and Modern History from the University of St Andrews and a Professional Certificate of Banking from the University of London.
Georgia Collier-Bolling
Program Support manager
Ms. Georgia Collier-Bolling obtained a BBA degree with a concentration in Accounting from Jarvis Christian College. Georgia also holds a Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA) and a Master of Science in Construction Management (MSCM). Georgia owner and Principal Consultant of Compliance One Consulting, LLC, a 100% woman and minority owned management consulting firm.
Georgia has 25 years of combined experience in accounting, audit, IRS and State tax preparation and audit representation, regulatory matters; programmatic and fiscal monitoring and compliance, grants management/project management, contract monitoring, financial reporting, financial reconstructing, and providing technical assistance to for profit, governmental, housing authorities, quasi, and not for profit entities.
Georgia started her first business coming out of college, which was an accounting and tax practice that provided tax preparation, federal and state audit representation, business start-up and accounting write up work varies types of businesses. Georgia also spent many years working for CPA firms performing federal A133 audits for governmental, quasi, and not for profit entities along with tax preparation for proprietary business and not for profit agencies.
Georgia works as a Subject Matter Expert and is well versed in various industry types in regards to federal regulatory compliance and oversight, tax, and company business requirements.
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