TOP BUSINESS PLAN WRITERS
and deployed more than $700 million
into projects, and modeled and written
more than 400 EB-5 project and regional
center business plans. Rojano speaks at
conferences around the world on the EB-5
program with the goal of promoting the
EB-5 program and staying in tune with the
immigrant investment and international
capital markets to better serve his clients.
WHY DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN
THE EB-5 INDUSTRY?
BERNARD ROJANO
Principal & Lead Consultant
Xecute Business Plan Solutions
B
ernard Rojano is the principal and lead
consultant at Xecute Business Plan
Solutions, which he founded in 2008. At that
time, Rojano was primarily assisting clients
to navigate through mergers and acquisitions
when his first EB-5 client engaged him to
manage an EB-5 regional center application.
Since then, Rojano and his team have
consulted for over 100 regional centers, raised
I founde d Xecu te Business Plan
Solutions 10 years ago with a mergers
and acquisitions platform, but the capital
markets dried up in 2007 and EB-5 capital
was a solution for many of our clients’
projects that were starving for equity and
debt. We were good at documentation,
project development and storytelling to
raise capital so business planning for the
EB-5 program and immigrant investment
was a natural fit for us.
projects developed by our clients and we
are adjusting to help get them funded.
We continue to work on great real estate
projects, but we also see manufacturing,
energy, tech and other industries tapping
into the EB-5 capital resource. The
investors and brokers are finding these
investments more appealing as of late.
ARE YOU SEEING ANY SIGNS
THAT THE COMMUNITY IS
STARTING TO ADJUST TO
POSSIBLE TEA CHANGES?
We need stability with the program in the
form of a long-term extension, reduced
adjudicating periods and increased visa
numbers to cover the demand from
China and other growing markets. Our
clients are very resourceful in developing
attractive projects.
WHAT TRENDS ARE YOU SEEING
IN THE EB-5 INDUSTRY?
We see smaller and more intimate
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