Jim Schaefer is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in business financial management, serving as a Partner at Mark Schaefer Associates, CPA's since 1978, focusing on early-stage and growth companies through business planning, projections, and valuations. Additionally, Jim Schaefer has contributed to academia as an instructor since January 2014 at UCLA Extension for the course "Financial Tools for Business Growth," and briefly taught Advanced Entrepreneurship for Graduate Engineering Students at California State University, Long Beach in 2013. Jim Schaefer holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UCLA and an MBA from the University of Southern California.