DR. PAUL M. WENDEE is the Managing Director of Paul M. Wendee & Associates, LLC, a corporate finance, private equity, management consulting, and financial planning firm, and a national strategy and capital firm, which he founded in 1998. He is also the Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Northwest Quadrant Alternative Investments Opportunity Fund, LLC and Northwest Quadrant Alternative Investments Venture Fund, LLC.  He has been a financial planner, entrepreneur, investment banker, securities analyst, business economist, and private equity fund manager for over 40 years. He publishes an award-winning investment newsletter, the Intrinsic Value Wealth Report Newsletter. He is the author and creator of Value Driver Theory, a new way of understanding and strategically thinking about business; and The Value Creation Theory of the Economy (Intrinsinomics). He teaches courses in business, strategy, management, investments, economics, entrepreneurship, accounting, and finance to university students worldwide. He founded the Value Driver Institute, a scholarly think-tank with a mission to conduct research on enterprise value driver theory and the enterprise value creation process; and to take the business incubator concept to places in the world where business incubators are not commonly found, but where they are needed the most. Paul is also an angel investor and is an active investor with various angel groups including the Investment Club of America.