CEO of Barthelemy Commercial Capital, now Bold Commercial Capital, LLC, Mykel has over 18 years of experience in the banking, finance, and mortgage lending industry. Mykel pursued her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1985 (now called University of Louisiana majoring in Advertising Design (commercial arts), Fine Arts and minored in Philosophy. Even though her education and background is in art, Mykel found herself in the business management and finance industries. At 15 years old, she managed her family’s small convenience store and by the age of 19, she opened her first business called “Designs by Mykel” where she designed wedding dresses and headpieces, and veils and even attempted to get an SBA Business loan! After working in Retail management since the age of 15, in 2002 Mykel made a career change and joined the financial industry originating residential loans as a mortgage loan officer. She worked for Citinet Mortgage in Cerritos, CA, and Mighty Dove Mortgage in Arcadia, CA.
In 2004, Mykel was hired as a contractor for United States Government SBA Disaster Assistance in Atlanta GA. Mykel worked in the disaster loan department servicing and updating loan files. She was shortly promoted to a different department within the agency in accounting and procurement. Reporting directly to the agency’s Head Administrators, Mykel played a very significant role in the Federal Government’s Office of Disaster Assistance (ODA) during the most cataclysmic natural disaster in American history, Hurricane Katrina. Mykel was given subordinate Federal purchasing authority with an acquisition and spending budget approved by Congress to fund the operation of various ODA headquarters and to procure resources, services, and supplies that were distributed amongst Federal employees to assist needy disaster victims. She was an advocate of disaster assistance information to prolific churches and economic development non-profit corporations all over the country who assisted Katrina’s dislocated victims. Mykel initiated the Federal liquidation of almost $1.5 million dollars in computer equipment to local churches, schools, and ministries in Metro Atlanta Area.
In 2010, Mykel worked in Merchant Services for Electronic Payment Systems (EPS) as a contract Account Manager servicing merchant accounts nationwide. The next year, she joined forces with Barthelemy Commercial Capital, now Bold Commercial Capital, LLC as Operations Manager, later Vice President, and now is the CEO of Barthelemy Commercial Capital, now Bold Commercial Capital, LLC. She volunteers in the Metro-Atlanta community to uplift those in need, often assisting the homeless and helpless. Mykel also ran for US Congress in 2020 and is also a TV news commentator and contributor. Mykel frequently appears on NewsMax TV Network as a guest commentator and contributor, as well as appearing on smaller, independent broadcasts. Mykel is also a proud member of the Asian American Hotel Owner’s Association. 
Charles has over 30 years of stable experience in the banking and financial industry. His humble beginnings started in 1997 at Bankcard, a division of Wachovia Bank, managing the collection department. He advised consumers and businesses with defaulted credit accounts. In 1999, he was hired at Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo) as a personal banker and was later promoted to business banker, financial specialist and trainer to supervise multiple branches in the Metro Atlanta area. He became knowledgeable in a spectrum of banking services and products such as asset management, wealth management, real estate lending, corporate and investment banking. Charles referred over $2 billion in investment instruments to other licensed investment bankers, and with his team, has closed over $12 billion in loan volume over his 30 year banking career.