Tom Lyons has more than 30 years of business experience. His hands-on operational background covers banking, manufacturing, distribution and real estate development and management. He also served as the business manager of a major Twin Cities law firm. During his tenure as Vice President of a local investment group, Mr. Lyons analyzed the financial position of hundreds of companies for possible acquisition. Mr. Lyons is a featured speaker on the topics of developing exit strategies for business owners, and selling and acquiring businesses. He is the author of the book EXIT $TRATEGY: Maximizing The Value Of Your Business.

George D. Abraham has been involved in the transfer of over 450 businesses and performed over 9,000 appraisals in the past 25 years. Two of the appraisals Mr. Abraham was involved in passed the scrutiny of the World Bank. He has performed close to 2,000 appraisals for Bank and SBA financing purposes. He has done several appraisals valued over $700 million. He has owned and operated several types of businesses throughout his career. His company has over 250 trained Field Technicians around the country that enable his company to perform appraisal and consulting assignments at competitive rates.  He has consulted with the nation's top Intermediaries, Accountants, Attorneys and Appraisal companies, and his programs are being used in nearly 2,000 offices nationwide, as well as in Canada and England.

George Hicks is a licensed Business Broker in the State of California, a member of the California Assn. of Business Brokers (CABB) and a member of the International Business Brokerage Assn (IBBA). He comes from a deep family of entrepreneurs. His entire career has been spent running, owning, growing and selling businesses like yours. His experience includes Sr. Management positions with MGA Electronics as VP Operations, VP Marketing and Exec. VP. George served as President of a start up called 1-Source Graphic Management. At another start up, he grew a company called Print Craft serving as VP Sales, VP Operations, VP Finance then President, over a 15 year period which included major program implementations with fortune 100 companies.