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OUR TEAM
Managing Director - Garth has extensive knowledge of selling,
marketing and optimizing a business so that maximum results can be
achieved. His knowledge of financial and strategic planning, internal and
external reporting, restructuring, due diligence, SEC reporting, mergers and
acquisitions, loan facility structuring and treasury management is
extensive. He has been involved in over $100 million of fund raising, loan
facilities, and business sales and mergers. Garth is a CPA and has been
CFO of public companies. Garth is a business owner and understands the
difficulties and the rewards of being self employed in today's economic
environment. He understands the emotion that occurs when selling a
business and believes in "win win" for all those involved.
Garth W. Cook
Tom Gurtner
Advisory Board - Tom , has over 25 years of experience in public
accounting, including years as an Audit Partner and a Managing Partner of
several regional offices of a Big 4 accounting firm. Tom has been working
with multinational clients in a variety of industries; manufacturing, health
care, financial institutions, and real estate, to name a few. Years of
experience in the US as well as overseas have developed his skill-set of
identifying potential for process improvements and implementing
solutions to increase efficiency of small and medium-sized companies.
Clients benefit from Tom’s multi-faceted approach. Tom has conducted
courses and seminars, and has been a speaker at various professional
conferences.
Director - Mark has extensive experience in the valuation of businesses for
tax planning and merger and acquisition purposes. He has served as the
manager in charge of consulting practice groups for Ernst & Young, LLP
and Arthur Andersen, LLP in the areas of Business Valuation and
Litigation Consulting, respectively. He has provided litigation consulting
and expert accounting witness assistance in various legal matters including
those related to lost profits, loss of use, fraud, bankruptcy and business
interruption, among others. He has performed business valuations for
estate tax planning, litigation, bankruptcy, and audit assurance purposes.
Clients served include, but are not limited to, those in oil and gas services,
telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, transportation, engineering
services, food distribution and marine services. Mark has also served as
an Associate Professor of Accounting at Dillard University and is a CPA,
CFE (certified fraud examiner), and a former ASA (accredited senior
appraiser).
Mark Maher