Andrew J. Elgin

CPT Andrew Elgin is a native of Mechanicsburg, PA and began his Army service in 2015 as a Transportation Platoon Leader with 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AASLT). During this time, he deployed to Northern Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. He subsequently served as a SSA Platoon Leader, Company XO, and spent two-years in Bremerhaven, Germany as the Operations Officer of the 950th Transportation Company, SDDC. Following graduation from the Captain’s Career Course, CPT Elgin served as the Commander of the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 82nd Finance Battalion. CPT Elgin was valedictorian and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Christopher Newport University with a Bachelor of Business Administration with a specialization in accounting. Prior to his current role in the Department of Social Sciences as an Economics and Finance Instructor, he obtained his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with specializations in Quantitative Finance, Accounting, and Business Economics. He received the Wharton MBA Academic Excellence Fellowship and was named a Palmer Scholar graduating in the top 5% of his MBA cohort. His hobbies and interests include personal finance, reading nonfiction literature, and watching an excessive amount of sports. He holds the Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designation and is a current Candidate for CFP® certification.