Business Plan Consultants in Boston

Booway Balhaajav, MBA - Principal Consultant

Boston, MA

Booway brings over 8 years of experience in business development, entrepreneurship, strategic planning, financial analysis, and market research in the financial services, healthcare, and IT industries, and an additional 6 years in international diplomacy. An expert financial modeler, he has developed over 100 models including pro forma projections for over a dozen startups, valuations, budget planning, sales forecasting, revenue models, cost analysis, and operations metrics.

Prior to joining Cayenne Consulting, he spent three years advising startups; co-founded a financial services company; performed international business development at GTech Corporation, the world's largest transaction processing company; consulted to Fortune 500 financial services and healthcare companies at Symmetrix; and conducted financial analysis at Allmerica Financial.

Booway earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and his M.A. and B.A. in Linguistics from Moscow Linguistics University.

Norton Greenfeld, Ph.D. - Principal Consultant

Boston, MA

Norton brings decades of experience in the information technology industry as an entrepreneur, as well as in the fields of product development, strategic market research, research and development, and management consulting. Norton has advised numerous startups as co-founder of a virtual incubator, where he assisted entrepreneurs in refining concepts and creating investment materials, evaluated deal flow, and provided technology perspective, including patent applications. He has also advised dozens of industry leaders including 3M, Amdahl, BankBoston, Cigna, DEC, Great Plains Software, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NCR, Novell, NTT, Open Software Foundation, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys, Xerox, and Ziff-Davis.

He has served as an industry analyst and columnist, contributing to PC Week, Computerworld, and Unix Review. Norton also holds several patents, and teaches management and entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, MA.

Norton earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Engineering Science (Computer Science), and a B.S. in Mathematics, all from the California Institute of Technology.

Charles Krakoff, MBA - Principal Consultant

Boston, MA

Charles brings over 20 years of experience in financial and strategic consulting, private equity, investment banking, privatization, market research and investment and trade strategy. His industry expertise includes internet/e-commerce, media, telecommunications, agribusiness, security services, industrial parks and energy. He has been an executive in and fund-raiser for several start-up companies, and has worked with over 20 other established and start-up businesses to develop business and revenue models, prepare business plans and investment memorandums, conduct valuations, carry out due diligence, and raise debt and equity finance.

Much of Charles’s career has focused on emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Before joining Cayenne Consulting he worked for a $150-million Africa-focused private equity fund, managed a financial consulting and advisory unit for Standard Corporate & Merchant Bank in Johannesburg, and worked for six years as a senior associate with Abt Associates, a leading U.S. research and consulting firm. He has also worked for the World Bank as an advisor to national governments on business and investment climate issues, and has advised numerous U.S., European and South African corporations on cross-border investments and market entry and expansion strategies.

Charles earned his MBA in finance and international business from Columbia University and his BA in Anthropology from Reed College. He is fluent in French.