Nigel Pearce
Nigel is a graduate of Rutger's University and holds a BA degree. He is currently the Board Director for the Samaritan Foundation, Inc.; Lighthouse International; and ITAC. He has served on many community and civic organizations as both an officer and an advisor.

With over 15 years of banking (as well as financial institutional experience), as the Assistant Vice President of the New York Business Development Corporation, he managed a portfolio of loans representing $100 million a year (with $260 million outstanding from the New York State Retirement Fund).

Mr. Pearce has served as Vice President of Sterling National Bank and Trust Company. His duties included monitoring the profitability of branches, and ensuring compliance with internal and external guidelines and regulations. In addition, he has also held Assistant Vice President positions with Marine Midland Bank.

As Director of Business Services for the Queens County Overall Economic Development Corporation, he has designed and implemented an Entrepreneurial Center with financial loan packages tailored to meet the needs of the strategic and management consulting firm.
Moreover, Mr. Pearce is the principle instructor for ITAC's Fast Trac High Tech 12 week
program, which focuses on business skills development for Chief Executive Officers of High Growth Technology Firms.

Email Nigel: nigel@financenyc.com

Yury Berson
Yury has excelled throughout his career in creating and implementing strategic objectives for small businesses in the retail and technology industries. Rising through the ranks of senior management, Mr. Berson has held several Vice President of Sales & Marketing positions. He dramatically increased sales & efficiencies at Yale Frame Displays, while getting his MBA in 13 months. More recently, he held the position of Vice President of Sales & Marketing & Acting Chief Financial Officer for Websplit, Inc, an internet-based software company. During his career, Mr. Berson has been responsible for the planning & execution of business strategy, developing market positioning and creating new customer markets. He has also consulted for several business-to-business enterprises on their corporate strategy, business plan development and fund raising.
Mr. Berson has lectured on many business-essential topics including Establishing an Online Brand Identity and Business Law on the Internet.

Mr. Berson holds a BA degree from Cornell University and an MBA from University of Connecticut. He is a member of the Cornell Club of New York City. In addition, he is an active member of many networking groups, including the American Marketing Association, Marketing Executive Networking Group, and The Cornell Hotel Society.

Email Yury: yury@financenyc.com

Praful M. Pandya
Praful Pandya - Managing Partner
Mr. Pandya has more than 32 years of cost conscious and bottom line accounting. He has had vast experience with international and domestic finance. From 1979 – 1984 he held varies positions in Occidental Petroleum Corporation- Chemical Group- He was manger of Finance and Planning. Organized and developed a 20-year barter agreement for $1 billion with the U.S.S.R. His responsibilities as a Corporate Cost Accounting Manager, included over seeing 80 plants with $4.5 billion in worldwide manufacturing.

University of Miami: 1971 MBA in Accounting & Finance
University of Bombay: 1968 B.S. Chemistry

Vicky Cheng
Vicky Cheng - Business Development Officer
Vicky Cheng has 15 years experience in International and Multicultural marketing, and the Asian American Community Outreach. She carried out major roles in media, advertiser and ad agency for the global Chinese market.

For six years, Vicky was the Co-Director of the Business Outreach Center, a seven-office network assisting multicultural businesses in New York to resource technical assistance. Because of her dedicated work, she helped to create thousand of jobs for New York State. She also hosted the first entrepreneur-training course targeting new media businesses in the metropolitan area. With her community outreach capability, she also assisted Fleet Bank to successfully develop the Asian American market since 1999. Vicky also serves as Vice President at Asian American Business Development Center to oversee the SBA funded New Majority Business LINC program.

Ms. Cheng has in-depth understanding of marketing tactics for both sides of Pacific Ocean for the global Chinese market. She is helping ETTV, the largest Taiwan TV network; established their footprint in the US. She also had contributed her talents to TOTO Communication Group New York, Regal International Advertising Inc. (DDB Needham Worldwide affiliate) Taipei, Taiwan to serve multinational clients. In addition to the traditional media, she was also involved in new media development since early 1990’s with Edwin Schlossberg Inc. and Sina.com, the largest Chinese language web site.

Ms. Cheng was born in Taiwan and has lived in New York since 1989. She received her Master Degree from New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program with the honor of Dean's List and Award of Design of Aesthetics. Vicky is fluent in Mandarin, Taiwanese and English.

Email Vicky: vicky@financenyc.com

Jesse Williamson
Mr. Williamson has a wide and varied background in communications, finance, negotiation and operations. From 1999-2000, Jesse helped American Express Business Finance, LLC in its early stages of operation as it test-marketed small business financing programs. He was a managing paralegal with New York law firm Weitz & Luxenberg’s asbestos settlement unit from 2000-2002, working to negotiate and facilitate settlement agreements including high-value in-extremis cases, as well as acting as a client liaison. While pursuing his MBA in Management Systems, Mr. Williamson has held consulting positions at various companies, including ITAC (Industrial and Technological Assistance Corporation), where he co-authored business plans and arranged financing for first and second-stage startup companies. As a consultant to Met Life’s Tampa-based Remittance Service Center, he initiated sampling studies to identify payment errors from outside institutions, and documented and analyzed the processes of Met’s supporting operations. Jesse has also held contract paralegal positions with firms as diverse as Major League Baseball, Scripps Networks, Gibbs & Associates and MTV Networks. Jesse will graduate from Fordham’s Deming Scholars Honors Program this February with an MBA in Management Systems.

Fordham Graduate School of Business Administration: 2005 MBA in Management Systems,
Deming Scholar Honors Program
Rutgers College: 1999 B.A. in English, with Honors

Email Jesse: jesse@financenyc.com

Gonmin Kim, Associate
Gonmin Kim is a process and quality improvement specialist with expertise in Statistical Process Control and many other fields. He has helped Fortune 500 companies such as Verizon and Citigroup solve problems with process inefficiencies that had significant impacts on their profitability, and identified multiple cost-saving solutions. Moreover, he has an in-depth understanding of e-commerce development and operation and has helped small and mid-sized enterprises launch their online business and refine the internal processes of the e-commerce websites—from online marketing and sales to logistics management.

Gonmin holds an MBA degree in Management Systems and International Business from Fordham University. He intensively studied in Fordham’s Deming Scholars Honors Program under Dr. Joyce Orsini, one of the most noted disciples of Dr. W. Edwards Deming.

Email Gonmin:gonmin@financenyc.com

Issa Colson, Associate
Issa Colson is a Yale Graduate and holds a BA in Economics. Mr. Colson is a dedicated Entreprenuer and Management Consultant with experience in Finance, Statistics, Accounting, Economics, Marketing and Communications. Issa has authored and executed strategic business plans for multiple clients including Software, Entertainment, and Marketing firms, and has sourced Seed and Equity capital for multiple firms across multiple industry segments. Mr. Colson has help Assistant Vice-President positions within UBS’ Transaction Management and Structured Products & Taxable Fixed Income Groups, and also has experience within UBS’ Private Client Group. He is a board member of the 21st Century Foundation.

Email Issa:issa@financenyc.com

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