Alexa von Tobel's PAGE Signature Initiative will provide complimentary business plan evaluations and mentorship to fellow entrepreneurs. This service will be a key tool in helping entrepreneurs to better craft their pitch to potential investors, identify gaps in the marketplace for them to fill, and to develop a product or service that has the greatest potential for commercial success.  Alexa will also work to build partnerships with local schools and community colleges to help students learn firsthand what it takes to start a business.

BIO

Alexa von Tobel, CFP® is the founder and CEO of LearnVest.com, and the New York Times-Bestselling Author of Financially Fearless. A CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ who attended Harvard College and Harvard Business School, Alexa launched LearnVest in 2009 to pursue her dream of bringing financial literacy and advice to people across the country. Since then Alexa has raised over $45 million in financing from investors including Accel Partners and American Express Ventures.

Alexa has been featured as a financial expert and entrepreneur in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, InStyle, Glamour and on the Good Morning America, Today show, CBS This Morning, CNN, Katie, Rachael Ray and more. Alexa has been named on Vanity Fair’s Next Establishment list, listed as one of “18 Women Changing the World” in Marie Claire, given a “Genius Award” by Elle, honored as an Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, and selected as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. She has spoken at Maria Shriver's Women's Conference, SXSW, and TEDxWallStreet, and she is a columnist for Cosmopolitan and Inc. Magazine.