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Meet Our Leaders
Scott A. Giles
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Scott A. Giles has served VSAC since 2003. Mr. Giles was appointed president and CEO of VSAC after serving as vice president of operations, social marketing, and strategy. Mr. Giles previously served as deputy chief of staff of the Committee on Science of the U.S. House of Representatives and as senior professional staff member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, where he authored the student loan provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1998. He was appointed by the Secretary of Education to serve on the Federal Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance and was elected chair. A national expert in higher education policy, regulation, and servicing, he has been designated by Secretary Spellings and Secretary Duncan to represent the nonprofit student loan lenders and servicers in three rounds of negotiated rule-making. Mr. Giles has a BA from St. Lawrence University and an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia, as well as certificates in finance and management from the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government.
Meghan Metzler
VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Meghan Metzler joined VSAC in 2024 after having spent over 20 years in public accounting as a managing director and partner at Big 4 and global accounting firms. Ms. Metzler oversees all of VSAC's financial and facilities management functions. Finance activities include issuing and managing bonds, analysis and management reporting of VSAC's education loan portfolio, loan program pricing, revenue projections and analysis and recommendation of borrower benefit programs. The accounting function involves loan-related activities, several state and federal grant programs, more than 125 scholarships, and Vermont's 529 college savings program. She received a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance from Syracuse University. Ms. Metzler is the chair of the Champlain Valley School District school board which she has served on since 2021.
Thomas A. Little
VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL
Thomas A. Little joined VSAC in January 2003. Mr. Little served as the corporation’s outside legal counsel from 1983 to 2003 as a member of the law firm Little, Cicchetti & Conard, P.C., Burlington, Vermont. Mr. Little was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1992 to 2002. He is past chair of the Lawyer’s Caucus of the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs. As vice president, Mr. Little oversees the corporation’s risk management, internal audit, compliance, and development programs. Mr. Little received his BA from Bowdoin College in 1976 and his JD from Cornell University in 1979.
Patrick J. Leduc
VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Patrick Leduc joined VSAC in 1995 and has held positions in information technology and project management prior to moving to VSAC’s executive team in 2014. He now oversees financial aid services, Research, Human Resources, IT, and VSAC’s state-wide outreach services focused on both traditional-aged students and adult learners.
Mr. Leduc holds a degree in computer science from Hesser College, has completed various leadership programs at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and is a graduate of the Snelling Center for Government’s Vermont Leadership Institute, and is a member of its board. Mr. Leduc is a former school board chair for the South Burlington School District, president of the Faith Influenced Leaders Corporation, founder of multiple scholarship programs, ongoing partner with the Vermont Talent Pipeline program and former member of the Vermont Business Roundtable’s College and Career Readiness Task Force.
Mr. Leduc lives in South Burlington, where he sits on various community and private foundation boards focused on improving the lives and opportunities of all Vermonters. He is active in founding South Burlington’s first food bank and providing a network of other services in his community and across the state. He was an advisor on the statewide Listen up Vermont project that gathered and shared the voices of the youth in Vermont.