Chirag Bhavsar

Chirag J.
Bhavsar currently serves as Co-President & Co-Chief Executive Officer at CFG I, Inc. He is Co-Chief Executive Officer at CNL Financial Group LLC since 2017 and at CNL Financial Group, Inc. since 2018.
He holds the positions of President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Cogent Bank; Chief Executive Officer & Director at CNL Strategic Residential Credit, Inc.; Chief Executive Officer at CNL Strategic Capital LLC since 2017; President & Chief Executive Officer at CNL Strategic Capital B, Inc.; Co-President & Co-Chief Executive Officer at CFG XVI, Inc.; Chairman at Currency Exchange International Corp.
since 2020; President & Director at Cogent Bancorp, Inc.; Director at Exchange Bank of Canada since 2020; President at JMS Holdings LLC; and Manager at CNL Strategic Capital Management LLC.
Former roles include Chairman at Currency Exchange International of Canada Corp., Director at Institute For Portfolio Alternatives, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer at Corporate Capital Trust, Inc. from 2016 to 2018, Chief Financial Officer at Corporate Capital Trust II in 2018, Chief Operating & Financial Officer, Executive VP at Florida Choice Bank (Mount Dora) from 1999 to 2002, Senior Audit Manager at Hacker, Johnson, Cohen & Grieb PA from 1992 to 1999, Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President at CNLBank (Orlando, Florida) from 2002 to 2015, Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President at CNLBancshares, Inc. from 2002 to 2015, and Executive Vice President at Valley National Bank (Boca Raton Branch) from 2015 to 2016.
Education includes undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Florida conferred in 1990 and 1991 respectively, and an undergraduate degree from Virginia Bankers School of Bank Management conferred in 1993.