“You can’t make a good business deal with a bad business person.”

-Warren Buffett

Alex Shute, MBA

Co-Founder

Primary Responsibilities

  • Primary point of contact for sellers
  • Interfaces with external service providers to help sellers streamline operations
  • Works with sellers in exit planning
  • Helps structure mutually beneficial asset purchase agreements and oversees capital transfer
  • Creates sales packets, seller interviews and marketing materials

Business Inspiration

  • The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
  • The 4-Hour Work week – Tim Ferriss
  • How I Built This – Guy Raz
  • The Art of War – Sun Tzu
  •  Masters of Scale – Reid Hoffman 

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Mark Woodbury

Primary Responsibilities

  • Primary point of contact for prospective buyers
  • Asset migration
  • Performs due diligence and develops valuations
  • Interfaces with attorneys, lenders and buy-side representatives to structure purchase agreements and secure funding

Business Inspiration

  • Zero to One – Peter Thiel
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
  • Blue Ocean Strategy – W. Chan Kim
  • Principles – Ray Dalio
  • The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham

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Darius Banasik, MBA

Business Consultant

Primary Responsibilities

  • Works with business sellers to streamline operations and create operating procedures
  • Represents sellers in the disposition process from sales packet development to close and migration.

Business Inspiration

  • Sapiens – Harari
  • Blue Ocean Strategy – Kim & Mauborgne
  • Can’t Hurt Me – Goggins
  • Tim Ferriss

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Alex Kivali, MFE

Primary Responsibilities

  • Constructs financial models and preliminary valuations
  • Receives and evaluates indications of interest
  • Works with buyers to structure beneficial purchase agreements and mitigate risk

Business Inspiration

  • Freakonomics – Levitt & Dubner
  • King of Capital – Morris & Carey
  • The Fish That Ate the Whale – Rich Cohen
  • The Men Who Built America (Documentary)

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