Joseph A. Balik, President /CEO of Balco International Partners, Inc. and Managing Member and founder of Great American Diner EB-5 Holdings, LLC. and its subsidiaries since 2001, and Managing Member of Gardens Capital Development, LLC.
Mr. Balik has over 40 years experience in the building construction industry and extensive knowledge in mechanical, civil engineering, aeronautical engineering and piping design, project management, financial analysis and modeling, database and financial reports, demographic feasibility research, economic analysis, architectural design, compliance analysis, modular buildings and restaurant design. Mr. Balik has attended the Academy of Aeronautics in Queens, NY for engineering and has a B.S. in Business Administration from St. Peter's College in New Jersey.
In the past Mr. Balik was a active member of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC and the Construction Industry Institute, also a director of Investment Research, Inc.
Mr. Balik has been in the engineering, finance and construction industry since he left the United States Air Force in 1969. The company he founded in 2001, has developed the "Integrated Document Solutions" a new alternative to the standard business plan as well as many other new and innovative methods of document controls and strategies for entrepreneurs.