About Us
Business Value Appraiser
BizValNow.com is a premier business appraisal firm dedicated to preparing high-quality business valuations at affordable prices with next business day delivery to any company located in the United States. BizValNow.com was founded by Dr. John K. Paglia, Ph.D., CFA, CPA/ABV--and an Associate Professor of Finance at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
Dr. Paglia, President and CEO, became interested in business valuation consulting when he purchased his first small business back in the early 1990s. After buying the business, he fixated on business value drivers to improve operations and shortly thereafter began producing value estimates as a business appraiser.
Nearly two decades later, Dr. Paglia is a tenured Finance Professor at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and manages the Private Capital Markets Survey Project at Pepperdine. A former Julian Virtue Professorship recipient, he has over ten years of University teaching experience in finance, performs business valuations for privately-held companies, and has testified as an expert on economic damage and valuation matters.
Dr. Paglia’s research has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, been published in a number of journals including The Graziadio Business Report, Banks and Bank Systems, Bank Accounting and Finance, Risk Management Association Journal, Journal of Wealth Management, Trusts and Estates, BetterManagement.com, Accounting World, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India Journal, and been presented at domestic and international conferences.
He is a regular speaker at economic forecast events and has been quoted in Dow Jones Newswires, Yahoo Finance, BusinessWire, Forbes, The Ventura County Star, The Pacific Coast Business Times, Men’s Health, and other well-known publications.
Dr. Paglia holds a Ph.D. in Finance, an MBA, a B.S. in Finance, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and is also Accredited in Business Valuation (BV).
