"After many years of teaching and over 2200 hours of 5-star tutoring, I have established myself as one of Manhattan's premier private tutors. I have helped hundreds of students achieve their SHSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT, GMAT and GRE goals and secure their places at schools such as Stuyvesant, Groton, Harvard, Stanford, Wharton and Columbia. I have also helped students from Columbia, NYU and globally (online) prepare for their exams in Finance, Economics, Investments, Statistics and Econometrics. Many graduates with Econ majors have hired me to teach them Finance and Investment Theory and forego the time and expense of an MBA altogether. I also help students navigate complex real estate valuation and LBO spreadsheets for both classroom related learning and real life investing.

TEST PREP: Many of my students spend enormous resources with classes, tutors and self-study only to find themselves stuck at the 600/85% level. This happens, especially for the Math section of the exams, because they have practiced and reinforced a brute-force approach which takes too many steps, too much time and forces careless mistakes. I teach my students how to think efficiently and find the elegant solutions. Instead of spending 4 minutes on a problem and getting it wrong, imagine doing it in 30 seconds and getting it right! That's how you get to 780. Many of my students wish they had contacted me first instead of going with a cheaper option. In the end, I may seem expensive but I am actually cost effective because I get results.

I have three Ivy League degrees, and I am a retired finance professor and a 20-year Wall Street hedge fund manager. I have taught finance, economics, investments and business at the collegiate and graduate level. I love to teach. I won the teaching award while at Columbia Business School. I bring both advanced teaching skills and real world career experience to motivate the learning process. I know how to explain complex concepts in an easy to understand manner. I am easy to relate to and develop a long-term mento" less...