Ilya Bodner's Experience

• === Owner ===

Initial Underwriting Group

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry) September 2003 - Present (4 years 4 months) Initial Underwriting Group (IUG) grew out of the financial side of working with small business owners. Our staff and executive team come from a background of debt settlement, debt restructuring, financing planning and investments. In the process we came to the realization that the average small business owner is forced to stretch to pay their consultants, and give the time that must be devoted.

Making the leap to helping business owners was logical and bound to happen over time. We realized that the average small business owner knows little about business credit and often makes the mistake of mixing their personal credit/debt with their business credit/debt. We began working with customers - the small business owners, by showing them how to separate the two. IUG was formed because of this need. And our specially trained agents work one-on-one with small business owners.

• === Co-Founder ===

Insurance Consultants / Universal Resource Network

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry) May 2002 - December 2006 (4 years 8 months) Universal Resource Network inhoused financial services such as long term planning, estate planning, life and key person insurance, business brokerage and other financial products. This business tailored to all consumer financial needs from personal assets to business liabilities. Reaching close to $2mil in premium collected and a dozen employees I have successfully sold off the business to the managing partners and co-founders.

• === Co-Founder ===

J I Financial

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Services industry) May 2002 - December 2005 (3 years 8 months) Debt Settlement, Debt Consolidation, Debt Management and Debt Restructuring. Fully established an office to conduct over $5mil in debt-under-management with over 20 agents and thousands of customers.

Upon a partnership with a local law firm and a realignment in the workflow the office has further expanded into more services for each individual customer. With the growth I have successfully negotiated the sale of the assets between a private company and the law office attorneys. The business still operated today with over 4,500 customers in and out.

Ilya Bodner's Education

• === University of Phoenix ===

DBA, Doctirine In Business Administration, 2007 - 2010 (expected) Online Accredited Schools are the future of graduate studies, and other learning, in the United States. Although the popularity remains low the spread of online universities is shown to be exponentials. Choosing to complete my DBA at the UPO was a decision based on the future of education. Online learning is only a few milestones away and with my own experience today I plan to use the knowledge to cope with the workforce of tomorrow.

• Activities and Societies

  Online Studies Research

• === University of Phoenix ===

MBA, MBA, 2005 - 2007 Online education has proven to be time efficient and very self driven.

• Activities and Societies

  Business Management, Online Studies Research

• === The Ohio State University ===

BA, International Studies, 2001 - 2005