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About Us |
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| 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 |
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MBAPlans was founded in 2000 by
Giovanni Valencia---a management consultant, entrepreneur, and
business school professor, and David Levy---a
journalist and Internet executive. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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