Company Profile

Real Estate Expansion

As real estate investment has become a greater part of all business development the company has expanded into investments, deal structuring, and financing of all types of investment real estate. While we prefer to concentrate on residential and mid size commercial properties, the company maintains correspondent relationships with larger firms as well as with major international firms should those be necessary for your project.

Our largest project was funding a $230 million hotel, serviced apartment, and office complex. So nothing is to small or too large. Land development, apartment or condo pre-construction money. We can help.

Venture Capital and Private Placements

Venture Planning Associates was formed in 1989 to provide basic venture capital, finance and merger/acquisition consulting services to the business community. In the first 18 months the company concluded two acquisitions, ten business plans and subsequent funding for clients.

The company established an internet presence in 1995. To date its services and products have been provided to entrepreneurs in 106 countries.

Clients have ranged from projects for GE Capital for business turnarounds, major real estate developments and Internet startups. The company has 12 former CEO/CFO's available for interim senior management services. The venture capital sites may be reviewed at VenturePlan.com and VentureMap.com

Principals

Bill McCready, President of Venture Planning Associates, has 25+ years of entrepreneurial management, finance, and business development experience in venture capital, startups, LBO's, Mergers and Acquisitions, real estate, deal analysis, deal structuring, and turnarounds at the CEO, CFO and COO level.

Senior Management Consultant (25 years) for major US and international companies including GE Capital, Alyeska Pipeline, Battelle Northwest Labs, Sheraton Asia Pacific, US Navy, USNRC and United Nations Development Program. He has traveled and worked extensively in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Bhutan and Australia.

He was a founding director and past president of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association and founding partner in the Hawaii Venture Fund. He holds a B. S. degree in engineering, physics and mathematics, and M.S. degree in nuclear engineering.

Prior to the venture capital and financial consulting fields, he served as a Fast Attack Nuclear Submarine Officer, Chief Nuclear Test Engineer at Pearl Harbor, and Superintendent of the Mauna Kea Astronomical Observatories, now the largest ground based astronomical research center in the world.

Teri McCready, Vice President of Venture Planning Associates, Inc. has 20 years experience as a marketer, specializing in creating marketing infrastructure for startups, in the following industries: finance, venture capital, real estate, healthcare, health insurance, health and fitness, travel, executive recruiting, computer industry (hardware and software), digital rights management, environmental, engineering, accounting, legal, telecom, radio, education, edutainment.

In 1995 she began her Internet marketing career and was immediately in demand for Web site marketing. She is widely recognized as one of the Top Ten Internet Marketers and SEO experts in the country.

In addition to numerous startups and small businesses, her client list includes Arthur Andersen, GE Capital Hawaii, LFR Technologies, and many major retailers and internet company's.