Some of Our Valued Contributors For Acquisition Aficionado Magazine…
Jonathan Jay
Jonathan Jay has been an entrepreneur since dropping out of university at age 19. Now 51 years old, he has built businesses in publishing, digital marketing, adult education and coaching, and preschool education and sold each of them. During the pandemic, he made 48 business acquisitions to create the 4th largest group in his sector in under three years.
One notable deal was buying a £5m annual revenue digital marketing company from its Private Equity owner for just £1 and selling it for £1.3m just eleven months later. He is an advocate of a healthy work-life balance, suffering mental and physical burnout, and believes you can achieve success without business taking over your life! He now helps other people buy businesses and helps them avoid expensive mistakes – as he says he has made them all!
Jay’s life and business philosophies are rooted in proven Servant Leadership principles to help you transform your results without compromising your values. He’ll teach you what he’s personally implemented and documented from 15-years of starting, buying, and growing businesses.
Jay’s values are Serve, Impact & Prosper. He and his wife enjoy traveling and bicycling. His mission is to “Serve 1 Billion Leaders.”
Edgar Fernandez
Edgar Fernandez is a Marketing & Growth consultant at Acquire Scale & Exit (ASE). His experience and areas of focus include IT, Telecommunications, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Amazon FBA, and financial engineering to get M&A transactions to pay for themselves. His board at Great Western Technologies is actively investing in IT Companies.
Jay Jackson
Throughout his career, Jay has successfully led operations in support of a $9B sustainment mission, oversaw teams of 50+ people, and saved organizations anywhere from $250K to $2.5B.
Jay’s life and business philosophies are rooted in proven Servant Leadership principles to help you transform your results without compromising your values. He’ll teach you what he’s personally implemented and documented from 15-years of starting, buying, and growing businesses.
Jay’s values are Serve, Impact & Prosper. He and his wife enjoy traveling and bicycling.
His mission is to “Serve 1 Billion Leaders.”
Ron Immink
Ron helps companies by developing an inspiring and clear future perspective, which creates better business models, higher productivity, more profit and a higher valuation. Best-selling author, speaker, writer.
Natu Myers
Natu Myers, founder at Raises.com prepares companies to raise capital by building and growing mid-market investment banks. By leveraging digital marketing and data analysis, he has originated, consulted, and closed equity transactions in excess of $150m+. Natu built a cross-border banking compliance system and a global network of broker-dealers, his associates manage to secure funding and boost shareholder value.
Nunzio Presta
Nunzio Presta is a former pro hockey player turned entrepreneur. For over 10 years, he has been a noteworthy leader in the business and startup community.
He currently serves as the CEO of BuyAndSellABusiness.com, which he scaled to over $2B in transaction volume. Nunzio has been recognized as a Top 10 Alumni in the Past 10 Years by the Ted Rogers School of Management, as well as nominated for the Caldwell Partners Top 40 Under 40 and the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders.
Nunzio holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Ted Rogers School of Management and currently resides north of Toronto.
Sebastian Amieva
Sebastian Amieva is the world’s most sought-after expert on Mergers and Acquisitions. He works exclusively with six- and seven-figure entrepreneurs and investors to drive growth through Mergers & Acquisitions.
Sebastian has spent the last 12 years personally implementing Mergers and Acquisitions strategies, investing into startups and traveling around the world.
Walker Deibel
Walker is a serial acquisition entrepreneur, bestselling author, and M&A advisor. He acquired seven companies over ten years and co-founded several startups. His bestselling book, Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game, released to critical acclaim including being recognized by Forbes as “one of the top 7 books all entrepreneurs must read,” and is currently being used in many universities.
Carl Allen
Carl Allen is the founder and CEO of Dealmaker Wealth Society. Carl is an entrepreneur, investor and corporate dealmaker with almost three decades of experience. Carl has worked on transactions worth over $48 billion, which includes over 330 acquisitions and sales. For almost three decades, Carl has analyzed thousands of businesses, big and small, in 17 different countries and across nearly every business sector.
Christopher Wick
Christopher is a heart-centered entrepreneur with a talent for numbers. As an entrepreneur who won over 14 awards and helped over 500 companies by the age of 30, Christopher has built, bought, and sold various companies relating to marketing, e-commerce, real estate, retail, and investing. Wick’s businesses have been featured by Huffington Post, ABC, NBC, and Wall Street Select. Currently, Christopher is Chairman of Say Yes! Enterprises, LLC, a Texas-based investment management company that acquires, builds and sells companies. Christopher has a tremendous passion for helping people thrive in their companies to grow their profits thereby growing their teams, families and impacting their communities.
Nick Bradley
Christopher is a heart-centered entrepreneur with a Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses, across the UK, the US, and further afield. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His “Scale Up Your Business” podcast, which ranked #1 on iTunes’ business charts, has more than 350k downloads in over 130 countries. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realize freedom, wealth, and impact.
Christian Haack
Christian Haack is The Business Exit Angel, helping business owners achieve the best exit. Business Owners get clarity and certainty so they can be sure that the transaction will happen and they will know their value and how to own it when talking to investors. He wrote the Amazon Best Seller “Building Digital Leaders” and he is also the author of the upcoming book “Sell your business for more – The Maximum Exit Playbook”. With his expertise as a Business Process Excellence Expert, he creates businesses that sell. Using Smart Data Analysis he uncovers desirable and sellable strategic assets.
With his work, he contributed to M&A transactions of more than $ 2.1 bn.
Arturo Henriquez
Arturo has been a Serial Entrepreneur, a sought after Consultant/Coach, 2 time Bestselling Author and Public Speaker for over 25 years. He has been involved in well over 130 business purchases, transactions, engagements and business deals. He has successfully started, bought and or sold over 55 national and international companies across 18 industries, personally from his own portfolio, primarily in the small business space. In some cases, with operating partners. He has bought restaurants, started a tequila company, a consumer goods export company, a technology company, bars and night clubs, a pest control company, fast food restaurants, real estate brokerages, a steel fabrication company, franchises, a wholesale distributor, a Data Center, a loan servicing company, a logistics company, an import and distributor of electrical appliances, an oil and gas company, a theater production, a professional soccer game, a senior living management company, among others. These have all been done for his own portfolio and in many cases without using his own capital.
Adam Lyons
From Main Street to E-commerce, Adam Lyons has saved and scaled over 1800+ small businesses since launching The Smart Blue Print in 2020. How? Well, his magic ingredient isn’t actually magic at all, The Smart Blue Print is a 5-step surefire process for business owners — many of whom came to Lyons during the rough times of 2020, (like the Dungeons and Dragons Hobby Shop in Bastrop, Texas, which grew by 36,000% in the middle of the pandemic!)
Jeremy Harbour
Investor – Best Selling Author – Business Mentor – Innovating the way mergers and acquisitions are done. Thought Provoker and Global Citizen, Jeremy Harbour is an investor, entrepreneur and advisor known for M&A advisory and creation of the agglomeration model. He is the founder and owner of The Harbour Club, a company that helps entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses. A globally renowned expert in Mergers & Acquisitions in the field of small-to medium-sized enterprises (SME), Jeremy speaks all over the world – even having been invited to Buckingham Palace and The British Houses of Parliament to advise on matters of business and enterprise. His commentary has been featured in the Sunday Times, Financial Times, and numerous other publications, as well as appearing on The Money Channel.
