Holly's Bio
For the past 10 years, Holly’s been involved in business development, business financing and facilitating mid-market mergers and acquisitions. She assisted business owners in many industries throughout New England and Upstate New York in financially restructuring their firms for better rates, without personal guarantees and enhanced cash flow. She later became the first woman in a large national M&A firm to close a major mid-market transaction – the largest in the firm’s history. Her business experience includes participating in a roll-up strategy in the power generation industry that led to an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
Prior to that, she spent 10 years in the US Navy, serving in a variety of capacities that included establishing a Naval Medical Command in Wiesbaden Germany to coordinate medical care for Navy, Marine and US Embassy personnel stationed or traveling in Europe. During Desert Storm, her role expanded to include managing the care of soldiers injured in the conflict. Later, she served as the Director of Ambulatory Care and Director of Public Relations for the Boston VA.
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Holly’s been active in a variety of charitable projects related to companion animals, assisting shelters; rescue groups develop sustainable fund raising programs. She and her husband are active in their nephew’s non-profit organization that builds, staffs and supplies schools for orphaned children overseas.
Bob's Bio
Bob has over 30 years of business consulting experience where he successfully helped clients revitalize and increase the value of their businesses by expanding or developing extensive sales and distribution networks, rapidly growing by acquiring other businesses, developing and extending product lines, redirecting company focus into new markets and formulating long-range strategic growth plans. Some of these projects involved locating, negotiating and implementing joint ventures that introduced new technologies and products into the U.S. from overseas and Canada and vice versa. Most recently he has been active facilitating the sale of several large businesses. Industries where he has been active include metal fabricating/processing, medical devices, defense, farm equipment, food distribution, apparel, financial services and power generation. His clients range from local firms to global concerns such as Deere & Company, Thyssen-Krupp, Gillette and Staples.
He’s served as INC Magazine’s business value improvement columnist and has a book being released this fall, “Staging Your Business for Sale – An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Increasing Business Value.”
Bob has been involved in many civic projects. He served as a regional fund raising manager for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, initiated and sponsored holiday events for local Head Start Programs and chaired a variety of projects that included securing medical equipment for local hospitals. He created a program that provided employment opportunities to senior citizens that was covered by the Associated Press and National Public Radio and testified before the US Senate on employment opportunities for senior citizens. He’s an active Rotarian and resides in Vermont with his wife, Holly; their Bernese, Nova Scotia Toller and 4 cats.
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