For over 15 years A'LaCarte Foodservice Consulting Group (A'LaCarte) has been providing operations and growth related consulting to Restaurants, Hotels, Convention Centers, Casinos, Country Clubs, Stadiums and Airports. A'LaCarte has successfully completed projects for start-ups, independent restaurant companies and large multi-unit chains. They have consulted on concept development operations, and growth related matters with a variety of chains (franchisors and franchisees) and independent operators.

Chris Tripoli has over 35 years experience in the Hospitality industry as a Designer, Developer, Owner and Operator. He has provided research and opinions on a variety of legal issues facing the hospitality industry. Mr. Tripoli has written for Food Service News, My Table Magazine, Restaurant Start-up and Growth and has been featured in various other trade publications. He lectures at the Art Institute and teaches courses in opening restaurants and proper growth strategies at the Small Business Development Center of the University of Houston.

Services Include:

Concept Development

Finance Planning (Mergers & Acquisitions)

Business Valuations

Operations (Policies and Procedures)

Management and Staff Handling (Labor Related)

Safety, Sanitation and Food Handling

Franchise Development and Field Services

Education:

Princeton, 1964 (B.A., Economics, with honors)

NYU Business School, 1966 (MBA, Top of class)

Expertise: Mr. Purcell has over 40 years of experience in every area of investment banking including the following:

Mergers & Acquisitions

Leveraged Buyouts and Recapitalizations

Fairness Opinions and Fairness Issues

Adequacy Opinions

Solvency Opinions

Bankruptcy issues, including fraudulent conveyance

Valuations

Advice to Special Committees of Boards

Due Diligence and Disclosure Issues

Fiduciary Issues

Damage issues and analysis

Lender Liability

Fee issues

Document Interpretation and Standards from investment banking point of views

Criminal cases involving alleged securities violations and insider trading

Financing of Debt and Equity (both public and private, taxable and tax-exempt, including structured financings)

Venture Capital

Leasing and Real Estate Financing

Background: Mr. Purcell was a Managing Director at Dillon Read for almost 25 years and has been a Senior Advisor to a number of medium-sized investment banks. He also has served as interim CEO of a public company and has served on Boards of Directors. Mr. Purcell is currently Senior Director to the Investment Banking Firm of Seale & Associates, Washington, DC. area.

Mr. Purcell has been an expert in more than 100 cases with over 100 Law Firms, including cases for the SEC and the I.R.S. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants. Subjects include all areas mentioned above.

Alistair Hynd has over 15 years experience in Corporate Finance. He heads the Project Finance and Financial Modelling Team that functions at Baker Tilly Corporate Finance, LLP (Baker Tilly). Mr. Hynd specialises in Project Finance, PFI, PPP and Debt Advisory plus Financial Modeling. Mr. Hynd is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and member of the Institute's Corporate Finance faculty. He is also a full member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Mr. Hynd's team at Baker Tilly can become involved in Project Finance or Financial Modeling in three ways:

Financial Adviser to the Government – structuring projects, evaluating bids, and negotiating detail

Financial Adviser to the Consortium – assembling the bid, refining and optimising it, and acting as interface with funding markets

Acting for the Banks and other Lenders - providing reassurance that the model on which they are lending is fit for purpose.

Other Services Include

Capital Markets: Reporting Accountants, Flotation e.g. advice on Financial Structuring, Accounting Systems and Policies, Share Option, Director / Employer Benefits, Audit and Taxation services

Due Diligence: Historic Performance, Cash Flows, Assets and Liabilities, Forecasts, Working Capital Requirements, Financial Systems and Controls, Taxation

Mergers and Acquisitions / Private Equity:Preparing / Maximise Value from Business Sales, Negotiate Terms and Raise Private Equity / Debt Finance to Support Management Buy Out or Buy In, Raising Private Equity / Debt Finance for Growth, Cash Out or Recapitalisation, etc.

Valuations: Shares, Businesses, Options and Warrants, Various Derivatives, Brands and other Intellectual Property, Film and Media Rights,Income Producing Assets

Mr. Robert Bartlett is a Retail Industry Management Consultant with over twenty five years of experience in serving the retail industry. His current practice focuses on the needs of emerging and/or high-growth retail companies in the areas of Strategic and Business Planning, Organization, Management, Capital Formation and the Rapid Implementation of Core Business Strategies. Mr. Bartlett has provided expert testimony in a wide range of cases where real world knowledge and experience is required.

Biz Virutoso is the premiere Business Development company for startup, small and medium-sized companies. Their professionals excel in the field of business development and marketing. Biz Virtuoso's experts have decades of experience in the various fields of Business Development, Process Improvement, Branding, Marketing and Executive Coaching.

Virtuoso Business Plans:

Plans with detailed information to obtain loans or lines of credit

Plans to attract private investors or new partnerships

Plans for businesses looking for operational or expansion funds

Virutoso Consulting:

Brand development

Logo & website creation

Marketing collateral development

Marketing strategy development

Sales and marketing consulting & training

Turn key marketing execution

Formal business launch & re-launch incentives

Executive coaching & training

Human resource, labor and employment consulting

Sales and development training

Business assessments

Strategy review and development processes

Virtuoso Assistants:

Day to day business assistance

Event planning and execution

Executive office assistance

Account management

Appointment setting

Database management

Travel arrangements

Blog administration & HTML coding

Bookkeeping

Bulk mailings

Carlo Scevola & Partners is an International Fiduciary Company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with branches in six continents. We specialize in International Planning, Strategic Consulting and Wealth Management.

Our clients trust us for everything from setting up an Offshore Company to Mergers and Acquisitions to Business Finance and Asset Protection. CS&P’s customer-centric methodology ensures that each client gets a custom-tailored solution which addresses that business’ individual objectives and requirements.

Our team has expertise in every functional category and every important geography. From finance to operations to human resources to marketing – from the Americas to Europe to Africa, Asia and Oceania – CS&P can bring together experienced executives who know how to advise you and will make your enterprise a success. All this while always protecting your privacy.

Services Offered:

Business and Strategic Consulting

S.W.O.T. Analysis

Pre-investment Feasibility Studies / Competitive Background Assessments

Business Plan Research, Writing and Production

Strategy Definition / Implementation

Reworking of Operating Processes for International Suitability

Industrial Partnership Scouting / Matching

Tailor Business Model to Market Environment, Jurisdiction and Local Authorities Requirements

Corporate Finance:

Mergers, Acquisitions and CessionsCommercial Due Diligence or Investment / Financial Appraisals

Company Reorganization and Restructuring

Financial Feasibility Plans for Industrial Expansion

Scouting / Recruiting Highly Qualified Financial Management

Exit Strategies in the event of Buy-outs, Buy-ins, Spin-offs or MBOs, MBIs and LBOs

Listing on Stock Exchanges

Offshore Consulting:

International Tax Planning

Corporate Structuring, Maintenance and Trusts

International Contracts Law

Jurisdictions

Residency and Citizenship

International Banking

Logistic Support

Government Licenses

Aircrafts and Vessels

Intellectual Property

CS&P Operates In More Than 80 Countries Around The World.

DEA Enterprises Inc., is an established boutique firm based in Los Angeles with offices in Mumbai & New York. DEA Enterprises Inc. provides fix-term or a la carte Contract Services to businesses, governments, industry bodies, non-profits and NGOs.

DEA Enterprises sectors of focus include specialized manufacturing, ICT, food-fiber-agribusiness-aquaculture, bio-medical / bio-technology, nanotechnology, and clean-technology. They also own an ICT incubator which develops interactive and scalable content based solutions in Government Transparency, Health IT, Education, international trade, resource modeling and Non-profit/NGO efficacy.

Areas of Specialization Include:

Sustainable Business Strategy

Sustainable Business Operations

Lean Manufacturing Systems Implementation

Trade-promotion

Export Market Development

Trade Policy

Investment Readiness Preparation

Pre-market-entry Capability Development

ODI & FDI solutions

International market arbitrage

Developing In-Market Strategic Partnerships

Triple Bottom Line Econometric Adoption

“Green” Policy Construction

Strategic Global Differentiation

Economic Policy – Fiscal / Monetary

Multi-Horizon Scoping and Planning

Strategic Initiative & Project Planning / Implementation

World leader in E-Commerce Management (E-Business) thought leadership, speaking, consulting and training.

Mitchell Levy, is President and CEO of ECnow.com (http://ecnow.com), an e-commerce management consulting company helping start-up, medium and large enterprises transition its employees, partners and customers to the Internet age through strategy, marketing, and off-the-shelf and customized on-line and on-ground training.

He is the author of E-Volve-or-Die.com (http://e-volve-or-die.com), Executive Producer of ECMgt.com (http://ecmgt.com), an on-line E-Commerce Management (ECM) e-zine, Chair of comdex.biz at Comdex Fall and the Founder and Program Consultant of the premier San Jose State E-Commerce Management Certificate Program (http://ecmtraining.com/sjsu), and the Chairman of the Pay-per-Performance PR Agency Media Attention Now TM (http://ecnow.com/mediaattention) and the on-line learning content production company Transition Learning (http://transitionlearning.com). Mitchell was at Sun Microsystems for 9 years, the last 4 of which he managed the e-commerce component of Sun's $3.5 billion supply chain. Mitchell is a popular speaker, lecturing on ECM issues throughout the U.S. and around the world.



He is available for strategic business consulting and speaking engagements on the following topics:

• E-Commerce Management/E-Business
• Management trends in the business world
• Short-term predictions for the future (http://ecnow.com/top10trends2002.htm)
• Long-term predictions for the future (2025)
• Why companies aren't making the transition to the Internet age
• Strategic ECM Planning - Evolutionary tactics (http://e-volve-or-die.com/evolutionary_tactics.html)
• Customer Service and Touch Points
• New Business Models - Change Management
• Internet Marketing (http://ecnow.com/Internet_Marketing.htm)
• Deployment, evolution & management of e-commerce within companies
  
  

Michell M. Cohen is a Certified Public Accountant. He has earned his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration and Accounting. His primary areas of expertise are in Manufacturing, Distribution, Restaurants, Catering, Realtors, Landscapers, Interior Design, Medical Professionals, Personal and Corporate Tax Planning, Cash Flows, Business Consulting, Strategic Business Planning, Finance and Management.

Memberships and Affiliations:

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Illinois Certified Public Accountant Society

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

Financial Management Consulting Group is an affiliation of well-experienced consultants serving banking interests throughout the country. Our years of experience, as bankers, as bank consultants, and as regulators provide valuable insight into case matters.

We can assist both from the industry perspective and from the regulatory perspective, offering a comprehensive assessment and well supported opinion. We have qualified as experts in numerous State and Federal jurisdictions, and on numerous banking related matters. We are dedicated to providing clients with quality, results-oriented service.