C-Level Advisory Services
Represent Business Owners during Business Acquisitions
C-Level Advisory Services
Represent Business Owners during Business Acquisitions
C-Level Services Offered
- Fractional CEO COO CFO
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Confidential Information Memorandums
- Divestitures
- Due Diligence
- Industry Rollups
- Turnaround Management
- Post-Merger Integrations
- Board of Director Services
- Financial Evaluations
- Operational Analysis
- Strategic Planning
- Leadership Evaluations
- Chief Negotiator Role
- Competitor Analysis
- C-Level Recruiting
- Succession Planning
Specialties:
Buyer Representation - assist business owners with due diligence and negotiating the purchase of a target company.
Turnarounds - offer high impact leadership to facilitate quick and sustainable earnings improvements and operational efficiencies.
Offer a very unique combination of operational and financial experience.
Rates
$ 400.00 per hour
Experience & Accomplishments
Professional Experience
- CPA-CFO-EVP-CEO - Owner
- 15 Mergers & Acquisitions - Buy and Sell Side
- Industry Rollup/IPO
- 1,000 + Professional Interviews
- Successful Turnarounds
- 30 Years of High Level Negotiations
- 17 Big Four Audits without an Adjustment
- Company Sizes from 10B to Startups
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Key Accomplishments
Biggest Career Accomplishment
2012 - 2017 Founded (with my outstanding technology partner) and built the largest online auto parts eCommerce platform ever created in the auto industry with 165,000,000 parts applications covering 39 brands of automobiles.
Personally and exclusively prepared the offering and negotiated the sale of our company to AutoNation during 2017.
Recent Accomplishments
2020 - 2022 Engaged with a prestigious Dallas based Mergers & Acquisitions firm as a Senior Advisor on sell side transactions.
March - December 2019 Represented ownership during the private sale of their medical device company to a large multinational health care entity out of France.
Ownership granted full authority to conduct all operational and financial representations as well as negotiation of the sales price and SPA.
March - September 2018 Served as the exclusive Seller Representative during the sale of a 20 year old manufacturing company to the leader in the industry . Negotiated a 30% increase in the final sales price and successfully closed the transaction on time per the owner's desired schedule.
2018 to Present - Personally funded, built and launched Praying As One which is a Christian cross company designed to assist Christian organizations with fundraising as well as to support missionary efforts around the world. Praying As One is an altruistic effort with a goal of distributing 3,000,000 crosses in an effort to spread Christianity around the world. www.prayingasone.com
Employers & Industries
High Quality Employers
Grant Thornton
Centex
VHA, Inc
Horizon Healthcare
Baxter Healthcare
Edwards Lifesciences
Fresenius Medical Care
DCP
Berkshire Hathaway Automotive
Industry Experience
Commercial Construction
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Technology
Consumer Products
Automotive
Customer Service