Booway Balhaajav, MBA - Principal Consultant

Boston, MA

Booway brings over 10 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.

He recently served as CEO of a $14 million, 100-person debt settlement company through a turnaround during this period of rapidly evolving federal and state regulatory changes and increasing competitive pressure. In this role, he identified and started the execution of a $500,000/year cost saving and marketing efficiency improvement and $3 million in new revenue opportunities.

Earlier, 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 MBA from Harvard Business School, and his MA and BA in Linguistics from Moscow Linguistics University.