Sharing Best Solutions to MAXIMIZE Private Business Value: We’re a curated network of selected of private owners, investors, and experts offering the best learning and performance solutions to maximize private business market value. We are building a specialized search platform (“a shared brain”) that utilizes natural language processing to provide the best aggregated insights for business users from peer-reviewed, expert sources. This platform, accelerated by the power of peer networks, helps smart leaders who are committed to continuous learning and improvement to accelerate growth, improve profitability and avoid mistakes by sharing benchmarks, best practices, capital resources, and advice and insights. Our vision is clear: to be the source of trusted partners that businesses, investors, and advisors turn to for accessing meaningful relationships and knowledge, private capital, and investment and advice opportunities. We’re creating a business ecosystem uniting collective intelligence, artificial intelligence, and community to help private companies build value. With the latest advancements in natural language processing, we are at a unique point in history (of humankind) where we can computationally analyze our knowledge and accelerate the process of innovation.
Domain experience
Relevant Total Experience: 10 years
Seniority Level: Senior
Sector Experience:
Software and ServicesSkills
Skilled in: Sell-side M&A
Technical Skills: Microsoft Office, Capital IQ
Languages: English
Work Experience
MidMarket Alliance
Co-Founder
●1/3/2020
- Now
Our research, development, and exchange center of excellence has been created by a select team of highly qualified, independent business investment and advisory professionals. With immediate access to this global collaborative network, affiliates offer superior business growth and capital solutions. Leading independent middle market advisory and transaction professionals worldwide! We’re a curated network of selected private owners, investors, and experts offering the best learning and performance solutions to maximize private business market value. We are building a specialized search platform (“a shared brain”) that utilizes natural language processing to provide the best-aggregated insights for business users from peer-reviewed, expert sources. This platform, accelerated by the power of peer networks, helps smart leaders who are committed to continuous learning and improvement to accelerate growth, improve profitability, avoiding mistakes by sharing benchmarks, best practices, capital resources, and advice and insights. Our vision is clear: to be the source of trusted partners that businesses, investors, and advisors turn to for accessing meaningful relationships and knowledge, private capital, and investment and advice opportunities. We’re creating a business ecosystem uniting collective intelligence, artificial intelligence, and community to help private companies build value. With the latest advancements in natural language processing, we are at a unique point in history (of humankind) where we can computationally analyze our knowledge and accelerate the process of innovation.
Alliance of M&A Advisors
Founder
●1/6/1998
- 1/3/2020
Founder: Formed in 1998 to bring together CPAs, attorneys, and other experienced corporate financial advisors, AM&AA’s 1100+ professional services firms – including some of the most highly recognized leaders in the industry—draw upon their combined transactional expertise to better serve the needs of their middle market clients worldwide. (Sold: January 2019) We’re now building a curated network of selected private owners, investors, and experts offering the best learning and performance solutions to maximize private business market value.
Global Capital
M&A Specialist
●1/1/1993
- 1/7/1998
Private Business M&A Broker: We generally provide our services to manufacturing, distribution, service and retail companies with revenues between $10 million and $200 million. Since 1984, our team has offered companies a unique blend of sophisticated financial expertise and access to the global marketplace of buyers, sellers and financiers. Global Capital Markets' mission is to be the region's leading financial services intermediary. We blend the art and science of deal-making in building, financing and selling middle-market companies for maximum shareholder return.
Meridian Ventures
Partner
●1/1/1990
- 1/1/1993
Private Business M&A Broker: We generally provide our services to manufacturing, distribution, service and retail companies with revenues between $5 million and $200 million. Our team has offered companies a unique blend of sophisticated financial expertise and access to the global marketplace of buyers, sellers and financiers. Our mission was to be the region's leading financial services intermediary. We blend the art and science of deal-making in building, financing and selling middle-market companies for maximum shareholder return.
Geneva Business Services
Dealmaker
●1/11/1984
- 1/9/1989
Private Business M&A Broker: We generally provide our services to manufacturing, distribution, service and retail companies with revenues between $10 million and $200 million. Since 1984, our team has offered companies a unique blend of sophisticated financial expertise and access to the global marketplace of buyers, sellers and financiers. Purchased by Citi Bank, the mission is to be the nation's leading financial services intermediary. We blend the art and science of deal-making in building, financing and selling middle-market companies for maximum shareholder return.
Education
Eastern Illinois University
1/9/1969
- 1/5/1973
DePaul University
Finance
●1/1/2012
- 1/1/2019
Working with other marketplace leaders, we created the most advanced credential in middle market corporate finance, advisory, and transaction service. Become a CM&AA and increase your expertise and influence in the market to source and close more deals. Courses are now available to gain a competitive advantage among M&A professionals with options to sign up for the full course or individual classes. You will learn from expert M&A professionals who are the very best in their fields in these upcoming CM&AA courses—virtual and in person. AM&AA provides CM&AA Executive Education courses at annual conferences and local chapter events.
Licenses / Certificates
AICPA
Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA)
●1/1/2012
Alliance of M&A Advisors
Certified Merger and Acquisition Advisor (CM&AA)
●1/1/1999
Certified Public Accountant (Retired)
●1/5/1975
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