James Bechtel

Associate Professor

E-Mail: jamebec@regent.edu
Phone: 703.740.1443
Mobile: 703.906.2929
Regent University School of Business
1650 Diagonal Road, Alexandria, VA 22314-2857

Education

Harvard Business School, MBA
Temple University, B.S.

Professional Background

Jim Bechtel has three decades of experience in investment banking. Prior to joining the RSB faculty, he was managing director of a financial advisory firm specializing in transformational change for growth companies, turnarounds and restructurings. Jim worked on institutional placements, strategic planning and direct investments in natural resources, venture capital, securities and special situations with Morgan Stanley & Co. He has also served as senior management consultant and a CPA at Price Waterhouse & Co., a director of mergers and acquisitions for a firm that specialized in representing U.S. and foreign acquirers, an investment officer of a Leveraged Buy Out fund, and a futures broker. He has advised clients on business combination, sale, and financing transactions in diverse industries, including consumer products, financial services, natural resources, technology, real estate, manufacturing and others.

Areas of Expertise

Investment Banking
Mergers and Acquisitions
Transaction and Ownership Structuring
Strategic Planning
Entrepreneurship
Negotiations
Financial and Estate Planning for Business Owners

Teaching

Anticipated New Curriculum Courses:

BUSN 613 Corporate Finance (Finance I)
BUSN 614 Managerial Economics & Decision Analysis
BUSN 623 Managerial Finance (Finance II)
BUSN 624 Business in the Global Environment
BUSN 630 Strategic Decision-Making

Courses Formerly Taught:

BUSN 610 The Business System & Residency
BUSN 620 Ideas, Customers & Competition
BUSN 631 Principles of Accounting & Finance
BUSN 651 Financial Management
BUSN 660 Strategic Leadership

Research and Publications

Book pending (Fall, 2005 publication) Estate Planning Success for Business Owners

Mission Statement

My mission is to teach, speak, and write to inspire and build up others to pursue worthy calling, fulfill good purposes, and act by faith, to glorify Jesus Christ. (see II Thessalonians 1:11-12)

The ultimate goal is "to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." (Ephesians 4:12-13)