Jeremy Shinewald
Jeremy Shinewald is the founder of the MBA Admissions Consulting firm mbaMission which helps applicants to gain admission to Masters of Business Administration programs. Speechwriter. Before founding mbaMission, Shinewald was the sole speechwriter for Israel's Ambassador to the United States. His speeches were published in the "Washington Post", "Washington Times" and other media outlets. mbaMission. Shinewald started laying the groundwork for his first entrepreneurial venture, mbaMission, while studying at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, where he earned is MBA in 2003. While at Darden, Jeremy was an admissions interviewer, published a  Business Ethics case and a Small Business Acquisitions case and was chosen by his peers as Graduation Speaker. mbaMission, which has an exclusive relationship with leading GMAT and GRE prep firm Manhattan Prep, is the number-one-ranked MBA admissions consulting firm. The firm's full-time admissions experts have helped more than 10,000 MBA applicants gain acceptance to the world's elite business schools. Shinewald is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) and was co-chair of the 2009 AIGAC Conference at Columbia Business School. Shinewald speaks on  MBA and Executive MBA admissions. He has run workshops at Goldman Sachs, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Cisco Systems, and for many other firms and organizations. He has been featured as an expert in the business school application process in publications such as "Canadian Business", "Crain's New York Business," "BusinessWeek", "U.S. News & World Report", "The Wall Street Journal", and "The New York Times". Jeremy authored the book "The Complete Start-to-Finish MBA Admissions Guide", published in 2010 and a latter edition published in 2014. mbaMission also produces a series of Insider's Guides to the world's top MBA programs, Interview  guides, and career guides. collegeMission. In 2019, Jeremy helped launch collegeMission, an undergraduate admissions consulting firm focused on helping college applicants craft their best essays to gain acceptance at top academic institutions. M7 Financial. In 2014, Jeremy co-founded M7 Financial, providing students and professionals with access to student loans and student loan refinancing. M7 Financial published its Graduate School Credit Ratings, resulting in significant press exposure via Business Insider, Above the Law, Poets and Quants, Quartz and more. The Graduate Program Credit Ratings turned conventional rankings wisdom on its head by ranking outputs – namely a student's ability to  manage program related debt upon graduation. M7 Financial also published the Student Loan (Reduction) Primer, a guide for students seeking to reduce their dependence on debt while studying for graduate degrees. The company has since closed. Venture for America. Jeremy was a founding board member of Venture for America (VFA) and has been chair of the New York-based VFA Entrepreneurial Board. Jeremy was also the host of “Smart People Should Build Things: The VFA Podcast,” a 90-episode podcast showcasing gritty entrepreneurs.