Gerard Perillo III

Gerard J. Perillo III is a nationally recognized business broker, valuation expert, and platform founder focused on modernizing how Main Street businesses are prepared, valued, financed, and sold. He is the Founder & CEO of Shark Team Business Brokerage, MAKO Score™, and Shark DealRoom™—three integrated platforms designed to bring discipline, transparency, and certainty to the private business market. Over his career, Gerard has been directly involved in the sale of 800+ privately held businesses, building one of Florida’s most credentialed and execution-driven business brokerage teams. His experience spans valuation, transaction structuring, lender coordination, and buyer qualification across a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on businesses under $10 million in revenue. Gerard is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA®), Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), M&AMI, CMAP, BCA, and holds both an MBA and JD. His background uniquely blends deal execution, financial analysis, and legal structuring—allowing him to see transactions not as listings, but as systems that must work end-to-end. Recognizing the inefficiencies and opacity in traditional business brokerage, Gerard founded MAKO Score™, an AI-enabled valuation and readiness platform that integrates directly with accounting systems to deliver real-time insights into value drivers, financial health, and exit preparedness. MAKO is built to serve business owners, advisors, lenders, and buyers with data that evolves—not static reports. He also created Shark DealRoom™, a private, curated transaction platform where qualified sellers, buyers, advisors, and lenders engage only after valuation, diligence, and readiness are complete—enabling faster closes, higher certainty, and institutional-grade execution for Main Street deals. Gerard’s mission is simple: give business owners clarity, control, and confidence over their most valuable asset. He believes that most deals fail not because of lack of buyers or capital—but because of poor preparation, fragmented data, and misaligned incentives. His platforms are designed to fix that. Through strategic partnerships with national organizations, data providers, lenders, and advisory networks, Gerard is building private-market infrastructure that scales trust, not noise.