Financial Modeling and Valuation: A Practical Guide to Investment Banking and Private Equity

About the Author

Paul Pignataro is an entrepreneur specializing in finance education. Mr. Pignataro has built and successfully run several startups in the education and technology industries. Mr. Pignataro also has over 13 years of experience in investment banking and private equity in business mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, asset divestitures, asset acquisitions, and debt and equity transactions covering the oil, gas, power and utility, Internet and technology, real estate, defense, travel, banking, and service industries.

He most recently founded New York School of Finance, which has grown into a multimillion-dollar finance education business, providing finance education to banks, firms, and individuals throughout the globe. At NYSF, Mr. Pignataro continues to participate on the training team, actively providing training at bulge bracket banks and M&A teams at corporations, and has personally trained funds of high-net-worth individuals worth billions of dollars. NYSF continues to train at over 50 locations worldwide, and Mr. Pignataro travels extensively on a monthly basis training sovereign funds and investment banks overseas.

Mr. Pignataro has also developed a semester-long program, the NYSF Advantage Program, based in New York and geared toward business students, which has helped students from top schools including Harvard, Wharton, and even lower-tier business schools land jobs at the top firms on Wall Street.

Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Pignataro ...