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Republican Convention-Related ** Small Business Expert Available for Interviews”
John Mooney, Over The Moon PR
(908) 720-6057
john@overthemoonpr.com
Rohit Arora
Co-Founder and CEO
Biz2Credit
Topics of discussion:
- Republican ideology on small business growth and the economy (taxes, regulation, Obamacare, etc.)
- President Obama’s record in relation to small business
- Measures that can be taken to bolster entrepreneurship
- Women-owned and minority-owned business growth
- The current state of small business finance
Rohit Arora, CEO and co-founder of Biz2Credit, is one of the country’s leading experts in small business finance. He has extensive experience in financial services and the issues facing startups and growing small companies. In 2011, he was named NYC’s “Top Entrepreneur” by Crain’s New York Business.
Rohit writes about small business finance for several media outlets and has been quoted by Bloomberg, Reuters, Wall St. Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, CNNMoney, Entrepreneur, American Banker, TheStreet.com, Credit Union Times, The Franchise Handbook, NY Post, and the “Wall St. Journal Small Business Report,” on WCBS 880 AM. He has been a guest on Fox, Bloomberg Radio’s The Hays Advantage and Taking Stock programs and on Small Business Trends Radio..
Rohit co-founded Biz2Credit’s web platform that now matches entrepreneurs with 1,100+ lending institutions based on financial criteria that the small business owners provide. Since its inception in 2007, Biz2Credit has arranged $700 million in funding for start-ups and small-to-medium sized businesses and handles an average of more than 6,000 new loan applications each month.
Previously, Rohit Arora was part of Deloitte Consulting’s strategy practice and also worked at Goldman Sachs and Silkroute, a Singapore-based private equity fund. He was an advisor to UN Council for Trade and Development in emerging markets. He holds a MBA in International Finance from Columbia Business School and co-authored Beyond Cost Reduction: The Risks and Rewards of Global Service Sourcing, a research report funded by the Alfred Sloan Foundation and the Chazen Institute.