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About Us
Our Philosophy
Service to the client above all else
Honesty, integrity and social responsibility
Commitment to excellence and attention to detail
Continuous improvement via creativity, education and innovative thinking

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History
MBAPlans was founded in 2000 by Giovanni Valencia---a management consultant, entrepreneur, and business school professor, and David Levy---a journalist and Internet executive.
Mr. Valencia and Mr. Levy sought to bring a higher level of professionalism and intellectual rigor to the process of business plan writing. Their approach brought together those who were uniquely qualified to write business plans—namely MBAs—with a revolutionary 360º Business Plan ™ writing methodology. As a result of this dynamic merger between people and ideas, MBAPlans was born.
To date, MBAPlans has provided services to hundreds of emerging and enterprise level clients in a wide variety of industries.

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Why MBAs?
The Master of Business Administration programs of the top business schools have one thing in common--they prepare their graduates for the multivariate rigors of the business world. The case study method and the general analytical, strategic and quantitative disciplines taught at the leading business schools provide a perspective and skill set that is fundamental to the business planning process. While other professionals may play a role in the business planning agenda, none have the depth and business training that is the hallmark of an MBA.

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Management Team
Giovanni Valencia
Giovanni Valencia, the Company’s co-founder and CEO, is a successful entrepreneur with over 20 years of marketing, finance, and business development experience.  Mr. Valencia is a Professor and the former Associate Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at Rutgers Business School in Newark and New Brunswick, where he continues to teach Entrepreneurship at both the MBA and undergraduate level.  
Mr. Valencia has lived and worked in Japan–where he led a highly successful marketing and promotional campaign for Lazare Kaplan, a publicly traded diamond company.  During his tenure in Japan, Mr. Valencia helped develop marketing campaigns for large retailers such as Mitsukoshi, Takashimaya, Seibu and Marui, and worked closely with firms such as Itochu, Dentsu and Mitsui.  Mr. Valencia has successfully founded and managed several companies, and began consulting on a professional basis in 1996, following one of his ventures–TVC, the first televised Spanish language home-shopping program in the U.S.
Mr. Valencia holds an MBA in Finance, Management and Entrepreneurial Studies from the Stern School of Business of New York University, a BA in Economics, also from NYU, and is currently completing a Masters degree in Accounting. 
David Levy
David Levy, the Company’s co-founder and President, brings a diverse background to MBAPlans. An experienced journalist, Mr. Levy was an editor at Reader's Digest magazine for eight years. He also spearheaded the firm's Internet roll-out strategy in 1994. Prior to this experience, Mr. Levy was a legal and market research specialist, as well as a free-lance writer. Mr. Levy added project management, marketing, business development and business plan writing skills to his résumé at the Gartner Group--the  leading IT market research firm--where he was the Senior Product Manager for Interactive Services; at the Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) in New York; and at SquareTrade.com, where he was the VP of Business Development.
Mr. Levy holds an MBA in Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurial Studies from the Stern School of Business of New York University, an MA in English and American Literature also from NYU, and a BA in English from the University of Virginia.
Paul Benevich
Paul Benevich, the Company's Senior Vice-President--Consulting Services, has significant experience assisting small-to-medium size U.S. companies penetrate domestic and international markets. Most recently, Mr. Benevich was the founder and President of Electronic Sports Inc., an application service provider for the sports management industry.  During his tenure at the company, Mr. Benevich successfully executed a multimillion-dollar European joint venture, secured domestic and European angel and VC investments, and oversaw the sale of the company. Prior to this, Mr. Benevich was a Senior Consultant at G2R, where he developed positioning strategies for leading technology-outsourcing vendors including: Andersen Consulting (Accenture), IBM, KPMG, Lucent, and EDS.  He also conducted M&A analyses for Fortune 1000 companies. Before this position, Mr. Benevich was a Trade Specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France, where he assisted U.S. companies with overseas expansion.   
Mr. Benevich holds an MBA in Global Business Strategy from Pepperdine University; has studied at the Sorbonne and Institute de Gestion Sociale in Paris, France; the Central Mexicano International, in Mexico; and holds a BA in Psychology from Purdue University.  

Mr. Benevich is also an Adjunct Professor of International Business at North Park University. In addition, he is an instructor at the E-School of the TRECC (Technology, Research, Education, and Commercialization Center) in Chicago.  The TRECC is a grant-based partnership between the US Office of Naval Research and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  

Fernando Alvarez

Fernando Alvarez (Ph.D. Financial Economics, New York University), the Company's Advisor of Intellectual Property Development, is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University, where he teaches at the MBA and undergraduate level. 

Prof. Alvarez’s research interests focus on the management of cash flows resulting from changes in working capital requirements, the structure of cash flows after the IPO, and the uses and sources of capital for the entrepreneurial firm. His research has been funded by the McArthur Foundation, the Kaufman Foundation, U.S. Trust Bank of Boston, and Wells Fargo Bank.
Prof. Alvarez has taught at Babson College in Wellesley, MA, and at the Graduate School of Management of Rutgers University. He has taught Financial Management, Long Term Finance with an emphasis in Shareholder Value/Economic Value Added, Short-term Finance and Cash Flow Management, Fixed Income Analysis, Investments, Financial Statement Analysis, and Portfolio Analysis and Management. Prof. Alvarez has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

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Contact Us!
To learn more about how MBAPlans can assist you in your business planning, strategy and development needs, please contact us now for a free, confidential and no-obligation consultation.

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