Business Finance Expert | Capital Strategy Advisor | Financial Educator

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Nimaj Driscoll is a financial educator, business finance expert, and commercial lending professional with more than 15 years of experience across banking, fintech, SBA and commercial lending, credit, and community development finance. Throughout his career, he has worked directly with thousands of individuals and business owners navigating credit, debt, cash flow, business financing, and important financial decisions.

His business lending experience includes helping entrepreneurs navigate and secure millions of dollars in capital across traditional financial institutions and community development financial institutions (CDFIs). That experience has given Nimaj a unique understanding of how lenders evaluate businesses, how financing products work, and what business owners need to know before taking on capital.

As Founder and Principal of Driscoll Family Financial Education Services, Nimaj brings that real-world experience directly to the people and organizations DFFES serves. Through financial education, business capital advisory, workshops, coaching, and one-on-one sessions, he helps individuals and entrepreneurs understand their options, prepare for important financial decisions, and take informed next steps with greater confidence.

Nimaj's work is also deeply rooted in community. His career has included leadership and service within Detroit's small-business and community-development ecosystem. His financial expertise has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, and his lending work contributed to CDC Small Business Finance's recognition by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Michigan District Office as Community Advantage Lender of the Year in both 2022 & 2023. He has been recognized as a 2024 Michigan Chronicle 40 Under 40 honoree and a 2025 Notable Professional in Who's Who in Black Detroit for his leadership and contributions to the community. At the center of his work is a simple belief that financial knowledge should be practical, understandable, and useful when real decisions have to be made.

TeQuion M. Driscoll is a full-time community leader and social entrepreneur who has helped steward over $70 million into Detroit’s nonprofit ecosystem and directly raised over $5 million for Black-led organizations and entrepreneurs. She began her career in insurance as a high school student (State Farm Insurance) and undergrad (Insurance One) before entering the financial services industry (Flagstar Bank). In 2013, she began her tenure in philanthropy and eventually served as McGregor Fund’s first director of operations, becoming the first person of color in the 99-year old foundation's history to hold a director-level position in 2018.

She has served as CEO of a social impact advising firm that provides a comprehensive portfolio of consulting & convening services for the sector since 2018. TeQuion has founded several award-winning social enterprises including a public foundation,  Minority Freedom Community Fund, which was featured in TechTown’s Innovator Series 2020 and named a Comcast Newsmaker. She is the co-founder of Sani360 LLC, a sanitizing company launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. She founded MotorCity Mimosa in 2023, a highly anticipated social enterprise headquartered in Detroit’s historic Eastern Market neighborhood designed to foster collaboration and wellness for the city’s most influential changemakers and social impact leaders.

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TeQuion is a national thought leader within both the philanthropic sector and is a founding board member of several initiatives including Connect 313 and Hope House Academy.  She also serves as a member of the board for the Black Legacy Advancement Coalition and in 2024 was appointed as the first consultant to serve on the board of PEAK Grantmaking, a national philanthropic support organization of over 7,000 members dedicated to driving equitable grantmaking practices. 

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She is a 2024 recipient of Oakland County’s “40 Under 40”, a 2020 recipient of Crain’s Detroit Business’ “20 in Their 20s” award and a two-time recipient of Acquisition International’s Influential Businesswoman awards. TeQuion and her organizations have been featured in several publications as well as over 40 major television networks. In 2023 she was featured in The Soul of Philanthropy’s exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum for her work as a Black philanthropist. Brookins is involved in a myriad of nonprofit and civic organizations and initiatives including the Michigan Black Business Alliance, Black Leaders Detroit, and the National Black MBA Association. TeQuion earned a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the College of Wooster with a minor in Africana Studies (2012) as well as dual Master’s degrees in Finance and in Business Administration from Walsh College of Business and Accountancy in (2018).