Strategic Business Advisors Delivering Proven Results
At NYC Advisors, LLC, we serve as your trusted strategic business advisors, offering hands-on support to help you navigate operational challenges, improve financial health, and achieve measurable results.
We can serve as your in-house advisors, whether as CFOs, COOs, or as strategic consultants, providing the tools, expertise, and insight needed for effective execution and long-term success.
Meet the Experts Behind Your Success
Here’s the team of seasoned strategic business advisors ready to guide you:
Yoav M. Cohen
Managing Partner & CEO
Yoav helps private and public companies stabilize performance, protect enterprise value, and prepare for successful sale, refinancing, or restructuring. For more than 30 years, Yoav has worked with founders, lenders, investors and boards in situations where the stakes are high, including operational turnarounds, financial restructurings, and exit planning for healthy companies. Yoav is typically engaged when a company is underperforming, approaching a transaction, or requires experienced interim financial and operational leadership.
Profile
- Yoav has worked with founders, lenders, investors and boards in situations where the stakes are high, including operational turnarounds, financial restructurings, and exit planning for healthy companies.
- Extensive turnaround experience, serving as CFO, interim CFO, COO, and Chief Restructuring Officer for multiple small and mid-sized companies
- Former COO of Selway Partners, LLC, where he led 10 venture investments and private placements
- Former Senior Vice President, Business Development & CFO of a NASDAQ-listed company, where he provided strategic leadership while overseeing a U.S. audio subsidiary and a European telecom subsidiary with combined sales exceeding $20M
- Board experience across multiple organizations, including Stark Business Suites and publicly traded companies
Ella Scheinwald
Partner
Ella is a business strategy advisor and executive coach with over 25 years of experience helping leaders define clear goals, enhance team performance, and navigate business challenges.
Profile
- She is a certified business and personal mediator
- Specializes in leadership development, strategic planning, and communication improvement
- Advised Fortune 500 companies, small, and medium businesses in the United States and abroad
- Her techniques and expertise empower executives, managers, and other professionals to define clear objectives and strategies, work efficiently, improve communication skills, foster team dynamics, define visions, and be a motivating and inspiring force in their organizations
- Holds a BA and MA degrees from the Sorbonne University in Paris and an MA and a Post-Graduate Degree from the Monterey Institute of International Studies
Joseph Zarkowski, CPA
Senior Advisor – M&A Financial Due Diligence, Quality of Earnings and Internal Controls
Joe is a CPA with more than 25 years of experience leading advisory, risk-management, internal-control, public-company audit, and transaction-related engagements.
Profile
- Has been a partner and practice leader at large and Top 10 international public accounting firms providing various accounting services, including Buy-side/Sell-side due diligence and Quality of Earnings (Q of E) services.
- Served clients in a variety of industries including asset managers, private equity sponsors, technology, retail, manufacturing, wholesale distributors, hospitality and other commercial product enterprises.
- Brings exceptional technical ability, strong communication skills and energy that would benefit clients in achieving their mission, strategic goals and enhancing their control environment.
- At NYC Advisors, Joe provides senior-level support on selected M&A financial due diligence, Quality of Earnings, transaction-readiness, internal-control, and financial-risk engagements. He works with business owners, buyers, lenders, and investors to assess financial performance, identify transaction risks, and strengthen the quality and reliability of financial information.
- Recognized as one of Business News New Jersey’s “40 Under 40” business leaders.
- Authored the Regulatory Compliance Association course, The Control Environment for Investment Managers, and has served as a speaker, instructor, author, and contributing editor on governance, risk-management, internal-control, and compliance matters.
- Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Institute of Internal Auditors.
Dana L. Cohen
AI & Analytics Transformation Advisor
Dana Cohen is an executive leader specializing in AI strategy, advanced analytics, business transformation, and strategic operations. She brings more than a decade of experience advising Fortune 500 companies and leading complex analytics, insights, technology, and client-service organizations. Dana works with business leaders to identify opportunities to apply AI and advanced data capabilities to improve operational efficiency, strengthen decision-making, and create measurable business value. Dana has spent the last decade managing multi-million-dollar portfolios, developing strategic partnerships and driving incremental revenue for organizations in which she has worked.
Profile
- Leads AI, analytics, insights, technical project management, and operational teams, with experience managing organizations of nearly 50 professionals and multi-million-dollar portfolios
- Advises executive stakeholders on AI strategy, automation, analytics roadmaps, operational transformation, and the application of data to business decision-making
- Developed and implemented AI-enabled automation initiatives that reduced operational workload by up to 50% across multiple business processes
- Generated more than $1.5 million in incremental revenue through strategic partnerships, consultative solutions, expanded client engagements, and innovative measurement capabilities
- Experienced working with Fortune 500 organizations across analytics, data strategy, digital media, measurement, and business transformation
- Builds cross-functional strategies that align business objectives, technology capabilities, analytics, and operational execution
- Holds a B.A. in Economics and Psychology with a minor in Mathematics from New York University, along with professional certifications in AI and generative AI technologies
Jack Zeman, CPA
Senior Advisor
Jack has over 30 years of experience in financial leadership, due diligence, and M&A transactions. He specializes in financial structuring, ERP transitions, and tax planning.
Profile
- Former Controller of a $50 million company, leading its successful ESOP sale
- Expert in accounting systems like QuickBooks, NetSuite, Oracle, Sage, Intacct, and SAP
- Holds CPA and CGMA designations, with expertise in financial compliance and tax strategy
- Two-time recipient of the Ohio Weatherhead Award for entrepreneurial excellence
- A member of OSCPA and AICPA professional organizations
Let’s make your business stronger and more profitable
Every successful partnership starts with a conversation. Reach out today to learn how our strategic business advisors can provide you practical and impactful solutions that move the needle.