Certified Public Accountant

Peter Camacho earned his BA in accounting and minor in economics from Rutgers University in NJ, worked for 2 of the major 4 accounting firms, Pricewaterhousecoopers,  Deloitte and Touche and passed the NY Certified Public Accounting exam, Peter also gained experience in the private sector with several fortune 50 firms in the international internal audited department. From 1997 Peter started a consulting firm in Colombia finally returning to the USA in 2004 and continued his consulting practice opening up his office in Boca Raton and West Palm Beach.

 Volunteered  time as commissioner of the West Palm Beach Housing Authority, audit committee member of the City of West Palm Beach and was on the past mayor's transition team. Holding a real estate license in the State of Florida, Peter is able to perform financial cash projections for his real estate investment clients domestically and internationally. Click here to surf our website

• Tax Planning & preparation
• Accounting & Bookkeeping
• Sage Software consulting
• IRS tax representation
• Business valuations
• Business consulting / New business setup

Our international experience has enabled us to travel and identify investors wanting to establish their home in the USA and source a business to purchase or start a new business. Our affiliation with partners that can guide new franchise companies with all Federal and local compliances .at a reasonable cost. 

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• Food, retail, manufacturing, services

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Signature Franchising Inc is our partner offering a fast and easy FDD revision & updating service*.  First we conduct an assessment of your current Franchise Disclosure Document and Exhibits, then Identify and articulate changes and/or updates to be inserted into the FDD, then submit them to legal counsel, yours or ours.

• Your franchise abiding by the correct federal and state tax and franchising guidelines
• Establishing the correct entity type needed for your franchise
• If you are an international investor wanting to create your international franchise in the United states, the legal team is capable of making the necessary strategies to do so.

 It is the Goal of Signature Franchising to prepare and launch successful new Franchisors. We are committed to providing the highest levels of development and support in the Franchising Industry. Since 1980, we have worked with companies throughout the world in developing and maintaining successful franchise operations 

Jay Shah, President of Star Advisory Services, LLC, a boutique consulting firm, has significant experience in fund raising, mergers & acquisitions, strategy development & execution, operations and finance. Over the past 30+ years, he has been involved with 30 plus successful acquisition / divestiture transactions with an aggregate purchase price of over $1 billion. He has also been involved with over 20 fund raises ranging from $500K - $5MM. He has also been involved in doubling revenues and profits of companies through organic growth and acquisition growth. He has worked in several industries, such as, healthcare, e-commerce, media / publishing, talent management, financial services, hospitality, apparel, asset management and not-for-profit.. Click here to link to Jay's website

Over the last 15+ years, Jay is / has been involved with several companies as their outsourced CFO and helped them with fund raising, corporate finance as well as exits. Some of these companies are / were Dalin Financial Group (a real estate lending, investment, management & advisory company), High QA, Inc., (an integrated manufacturing quality management software solutions company), Equium Intelligence, Inc (a healthcare scheduling software company), Medikidz, Inc d/b/a Jumo Health (a education information company targeting children with medical conditions), FSA Store, Inc. (an e-commerce company), Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. (an advanced materials company) , Montage Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (a software company doing radiology analytics – sold to Nuance Communications, Inc), CareGain, Inc (a software company in the Consumer Directed Healthcare market, sold to Fiserv, Inc.); Hx Technologies, Inc (a healthcare IT company, sold to Medecision, Inc); IntegriChain, Inc (a data analytics company); SkillSurvey, Inc (a web based reference checking company); Current Analysis, Inc (Competitive Response solutions that enable companies to effectively anticipate and counter competitive threats, and win more business); Miami International Holdings, Inc (a financial services firm), EuroMed, Inc. (a medical device company for wound care therapy), SpectraMedix USA, Inc. (a clinical data analytics company). Jay has also been involved in several special projects – NarrativeDx (fund raising – served as a Board member & helped exit to a strategic buyer), Afoundria, LLC (d/b/a ChartPath, an EMR company, sold to private equity), OpsMD, Inc. (d/b/a Sertus Medical Billing, company sold to private equity), Idesco, Inc (a specialty printer business), NopSec, Inc (a cybersecurity technology company) Commonwealth Business Media (circulation project for OAG), Apprise Media, LLC (acquisition due diligence on an Events Management Company), Seguin Partners (acquisition due diligence), Appliedinfo Partners (Fund Raising), Center for Vein Restoration (majority sale to Private Equity), Center for Womens Health (sale to Private Equity) Thought Focus Technologies, LLC (minority sale to Private Equity), PayCommerce, Inc. (partial sale to Private Equity), CosmoLex, Inc (sale to strategic company backed by Private Equity), Afoundria, LLC (sale to Private Equity).t.

Prior to starting his own consulting firm, Jay held several progressive positions within Haights Cross Communications, formed in 1997, was a $200MM private equity (Great Hill Partners & CSFB) backed roll up within the supplemental education industry. Over his tenure at Haights Cross, from 2000 to 2004, Jay held several progressive positions. His last position was President & CEO of Buckle Down Publishing, a test prep publisher. Prior to Buckle Down, he was EVP, COO & CFO of Triumph Learning, another test prep publisher. Prior to Triumph Learning, Jay was VP of Corporate Development for the parent company, Haights Cross Communications.

Prior to Haights Cross, Jay was at Primedia (formerly known as K-III Communications), a $1.8 billion publicly held media company, started by KKR, a private equity firm, in 1989. During his tenure at Primedia, from 1993 to 2000, the company grew from $745 MM in revenues to over $1,500 MM and went public. Jay held several progressive positions within Primedia. His last position was VP Operations & CFO at Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Prior to Films, Jay was the Director of Acquisition Analysis and Manager of Internal Audit, at Primedia, the parent company.

Prior to Primedia, Jay was with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, from 1987 to 1993. He was in their EBS (Emerging Business Services) group and was promoted from Staff Accountant to Manager (4 promotions) during the time at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Shah holds the Bachelor of Science in Accounting from New York University, and Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University. He is also a New York State Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Shah won the New Jersey Tech Council “CFO Hall of Fame Award” in 2015. Mr. Shah also won Smart CEO “Executive Management Award” in 2015. Mr. Shah is an Ex-Advisory Board Member for the CFO Alliance and for New Jersey Technology Council’s CFO Advisory Board.