Interviews

Ron Edmonds serves as a principal consultant for The Principium Group, Inc. He is a corporate finance professional with extensive experience in merger and acquisition transactions, including due diligence, negotiating, directing other professionals, and planning the integration of operations. Ron has significant experience with the health care, consumer services, financial institutions, manufacturing, distribution, and entertainment industries. […]

Gary Papay is the founder and managing partner of IBG Business’s Pennsylvania and North Carolina offices. As a professional intermediary and business appraiser, Gary specializes in the sale and transfer of privately held mid-market, heating oil, propane, and petroleum companies since 1976. Gary is an M&AMI, CBI, Certified Machinery & equipment Appraiser and Senior Business […]

Introducing our new M&A Source Chair for 2022: Jeff Swiggett, CBI, M&AMI Jeff is the Chair-Elect of the M&A Source Board of Directors and will assume chairmanship in 2022. Jeff has over thirty years of business experience including positions in engineering, manufacturing, marketing, business startup, and acquisition. He owned and operated an import/export firm as […]

Sally Anne Hughes, MBA, CBI founded Hughes Klaiber in 2008. Hughes Klaiber is a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm based in New York City providing trusted advice to help entrepreneurs navigate the complex process to sell or buy a business. Sally Anne and her team bring a high level of experience and expertise, to help […]

Anthony J. Citrolo is a Managing Partner and Founder of The NYBB Group, LLC. and NYBB Commercial Real Estate. Anthony and his team represent privately held companies with annual revenues of $5 million to $50 million. Anthony represents clients in all industries, with specialties in business services and HVAC including contractors across the entire spectrum […]

Jason Werner is the founder and president of Ethos Business Advisors, LLC. that he founded in 2021 after nearly 4 years at Walden Businesses. Jason has 20 years of business transactional experience, including spearheading mergers and acquisitions, conducting negotiations, performing financial and operational analysis, implementing strategic plans, and consulting with business owners. A Certified Mergers […]

Gary Rogers has been an active owner in Kingsley Group Business Brokers for over 25 years. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Iowa. Gary has served as Chairman of the Small Business Advisory Council for the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce and currently serves […]

Doug Robbins is President and Founder of Robbinex Inc., an internationally renowned Canadian Business Intermediary and Business Broker. He is a seasoned businessman having completed more than 1,000 assignments relating to advising clients on mergers and acquisitions; valuations; transferring businesses to the next generation; partnership resolutions; refinancing; along with numerous other consulting activities. He has […]

Lamar Stanley is Vice President of Gen Cap America, a private investment firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. GCA specializes in acquisitions and recapitalizations of quality middle market and lower middle market businesses with revenues between $10M and $200M. Before joining Gen Cap in 2016, Lamar was with Diversified Trust Company, a wealth management firm where he worked in their private-equity strategy group. Prior to Diversified Trust Company, Mr. Stanley served […]

This month, we chatted with Scott Bushkie, CBI, M&AMI, M&A Source Conference Committee Chair, and Founder of Cornerstone Business Services in Green Bay, WI. With more than 20 years in the M&A industry, Scott is a recognized leader in the field, providing exit strategies, sell- and buy-side transitions, along with valuation services in the lower middle market. […]

Lisa Riley is the founder and president of Delta Business Advisors. Lisa has worked in the industry since 2011 and is the incoming chair of the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA). She is also the past chair of the Arizona Business Brokers Association (AZBBA) and spearheads the quarterly IBBA/M&A Source Market Pulse Survey. Lisa holds […]

Alex Mazer is a Vice President with Big Shoulders Capital and its affiliate, PPL Group, a private firm that provides liquidity solutions for commercial and industrial companies in turnaround/transition. Primary services include industrial asset disposition/liquidations, quick and creative asset-based debt refinancing, and equity investments in small and middle-market operating companies. Prior to joining them, Alex founded and managed […]