Mrs. Loper co-founded Southern Capital Funding Network in 2014.  In addition to her duties as Executive Vice President, Mrs. Loper provides mentoring to Women Owned Small Businesses.  Mrs. Loper understands the challenges women business owners and managers face on daily basis and is often sought out by others within the business community for advice and guidance.

Mrs. Loper is a proven small business leader with over 18 years of experience successfully building, staffing and managing small local businesses.  Prior to co-founding the Southern Capital Funding Network, spent 10 years building and leading a local non-for-profit organization and managing their local retail store.  At the time of her hire, the retail store operated in a 5,000 square foot facility and consisted of a staff of 2 employees and dozens of volunteers. With her expert knowledge of sales and operations, she was instrumental in growing the retail store platform over the past 10 years into a 25,000 square foot facility with over 30 full time employees and 300 plus local volunteers. Her skill as a small business manager enabled the non-for-profit organization to become one of the most successful local small businesses in the area and earn a reputation as one of the most efficiently run retail stores within the community.

Mrs. Loper is graduate of the University of Maryland.