Ben James

About Ben James

Successful finance and investment executive with 25 years of investment, management and…

Experience

1. CFO

   Schoolcnxt Now Snap Connect

   Dec 2014 — Present

   As CFO, developed and lead all financial, strategy development, legal, accounting, investor relations and fundraising/capital formation functions for SchoolCNXT. SchoolCNXT is a for profit social media company with a mission to improve student outcomes where its most needed, generally large, diverse, urban School districts. The Company empowers schools, districts and families to improve student outcomes in K-12 schools and birth to five programs. SchoolCNXT equips its clients with an enterprise class mobile and web enabled privacy protected social networking platform. The platform nurtures deep user engagement between and among families, teachers and administrators within schools and districts to build community and create a culture of collaboration to enhance student performance.

Education

• Questrom School of Business, Boston University

  Masters of Business Administration, Finance

  1985 — 1987

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor of Science, Economics

  1975 — 1979

Skills

• Valuation
• Fixed Income
• Financial Analysis
• Business Strategy
• Investments
• Financial Modeling
• Portfolio Management
• Mergers
• Managing a Portfolio/Business of Private Equity Fund Investing
• Start-Ups
• Mutual Funds
• Corporate Finance
• Private Equity
• Finance
• Venture Capital
• Leadership
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Due Diligence
• Equities
• Capital Markets
• Corporate Development
• Executive Management
• Investment Banking
• Management
• Strategic Planning
• Lbo
• Strategy