Jeremy Shinewald

Speechwriter

Before founding mbaMission, Jeremy 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

Jeremy earned his MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration 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. He was also laying the groundwork for his first entrepreneurial venture, mbaMission, which would quickly rise to become the leading MBA admissions consulting firm in the world, evidenced by mbaMission quickly developing exclusive relationships with ManhattanGMAT and Kaplan, Inc., the two largest GMAT prep firms in the world. mbaMission's reputation is validated by its appearance at the top of the GMAT Club rankings, since the ranking’s inception. mbaMission credits its stable team of veteran consultants with its success - mbaMission consultants are committed to this field as a career, which is highly unusual in this industry.

Jeremy 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.

Jeremy is a sought-after speaker on MBA and Executive MBA admissions. He has run workshops at Goldman Sachs, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Cisco Systems, and for many other firms and organizations. Jeremy 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 is also well known for its detailed series of Insider's Guides to the world's top MBA programs.

jdMission

In February 2011, Jeremy helped launch jdMission, a professional law school admissions consulting firm, where he leads a team to help law school aspirants grab the attention of admissions officers at elite law schools.

MBA Career Coaches

In 2014, Jeremy co-founded MBA Career Coaches, a firm dedicated to helping pre-MBAs define their careers on the road to business school and helping MBA students find fulfilling careers while in business school and beyond. MBA Career Coaches has presented career workshops at Northwestern-Kellogg and Michigan Ross as well as for the Forte Foundation, in addition to its own online events where it presents to hundreds.

MBA Career Coaches produced a very popular and free Career Primer series, which enables business professionals to quickly understand the dynamics of the typical post-MBA Careers: private equity, venture capital, investment banking, marketing/brand management and consulting.

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.

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 is also the host of “Smart People Should Build Things: The VFA Podcast,” a podcast showcasing gritty entrepreneurs.