The company’s Founder and CEO, Clint Fiore, has a unique combination of entrepreneurial, executive leadership, and high-tech systems experience. He has utilized these attributes to create a first-of-its-kind business that systematically removes the mystery and obstacles associated with finding a business, buying and financing the business you want, preparing your existing business for sale, and marketing your business efficiently to its next owner. Clint is in the sweet-spot to bridge the gap between buyer and seller. He’s old enough to have real-world experience as an entrepreneur and have been in your shoes as a business owner, yet young enough to fully understand the needs of today’s young and tech-savvy business buyers. His experience includes: - Founding Partner of a Texas-Based, 50 employee, manufacturing company that launched two national consumer brands each with multi-million dollar sales and nationwide distribution. - Successfully sold ownership interest of founded company. - Has raised 7-figures of angel investment for two different startups, both still operating successfully. - Former Vice President of a successful startup technology and social media company - Former public speaker that has spoken in over 20 US States to over 100,000 live audience members. Three years experience as the #1 commercial broker for the largest privately-held aviation insurance agency in the USA. Many high-net-worth, aircraft-owning clients and small business relationships in the aviation world. Clint lives in the Texas Hill Country. He’s also a private pilot and flight instructor and travels around the country frequently. He and his wife Melissa have four wonderful children; Amelia, Sophia, Cecilia, and Jetson. Clint grew up in Wichita Falls where he was part of his family’s 4th generation family business, Smith’s Gardentown Farms. He also holds a Professional Aeronautics Degree with minors in Business Administration and Navigation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. - Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) and frequent presenter and contributor at the IBBA - Certified Mergers and Acquisitions Professional (CM&AP) - Business Brokers Association (IBBA) - Certified Value Builder (CVB) - Texas Real Estate License #677362 - Member International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) - Member Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)

Dusty Block is the Director of M&A for Dealonomy, and since 2017 has been an integral part of CEO Clint Fiore’s team (first at Bison Business, and now at Dealonomy). Dusty loves helping others make well-educated decisions throughout the process of buying or selling a company. From chatting through systems and operations to deep diving into financial analysis, he not only personally helps buyers and sellers, but he also leads Dealonomy’s M&A team. Dusty steadily removes the ambiguity and barriers associated with finding a business, buying and financing the business you want, or preparing your existing business for sale, and marketing your business competently to its future owner. His experience includes: - Operations & Financial Analysis. - Pricing companies at fair market value and ensuring that deals are bankable. - Helping owners streamline and maximize their company’s value. - Leading deals through a variety of banking and funding options. - He is an entrepreneur, business owner, and investor. - Former Director of Operations and Production Manager. - Has led Pitch Day events for startups to pitch investors for capital. - Involvement in non-profit fundraising. Dusty is a graduate of multiple industry and professional trainings. He grew up in Ingram, TX where he was an All-State athlete for Ingram Tom Moore. Dusty attended Texas A&M Kingsville on a track scholarship winning numerous awards. Today he lives in his childhood hometown, is married to his beautiful bride, Hannah, and is a proud father to his sons, Maverick and Miles. Dusty’s a volunteer for the Mountain Home Fire Department. He’s dedicated 1,000s of hours over the past decade responding to fires, vehicle wrecks, and other emergencies. He is a triathlete and a trained rescue swimmer who holds multiple certificates. He is on the Kerr County Swiftwater Rescue Team, a county-wide initiative, geared at having a team prepared for emergency flood rescues. Dusty is Kerr Economic Development Corporation Top 40 Award Recipient for his many community and economic contributions and is a member of Apex Entrepreneurs.

Elyssa serves as the Buyer Liaison for Dealonomy, where she loves helping good people make great business deals. She’s passionate about seeing businesses flourish & entrepreneurs thrive! Elyssa’s forte is putting the right people together to get things done. She has a degree in business management, has a robust background in contract negotiation, and extensive experience in non-profit and business management. Her experience includes: - Buyer Liaison & Advisor at Dealonomy. - Deal Manager at Bison Business. - Business management across multiple industries. - Non-profit management assisting high-risk populations. - Facilitated national and international business training events for thousands of business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives. - Experienced professional overseeing hundreds of business contract negotiations Founding creator of “Race to Freedom” a marathon fundraiser resulting in the rescue of hundreds of children from human traffickers. Elyssa is a graduate of multiple industry trainings in brokerage, negotiation, and sales. She loves encouraging and partnering with other world changers. Some of her past long-term endeavors include: running a non-profit to assist at-risk populations, making meals for the homeless, visiting prisoners in international prisons, and assisting with programs for children of incarcerated parents. She serves on the leadership teams of various networking and community groups. Elyssa is a Kerr Economic Development Corporation Top 40 Award Recipient for her many community and economic contributions and Elyssa serves on the Board of Directors for the Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce. She resides in the beautiful Texas Hill Country where she spends her downtime with friends and family, and is the proud auntie to 9 nieces and nephews.

Jan serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Dealonomy, where he leads the development and engineering of the company’s innovative platform. A seasoned technology expert, Jan brings deep expertise in backend architecture, mobile applications, security, cryptography, and artificial intelligence. In 2010, Jan founded his own software agency, specializing in custom web applications and cloud-based invoicing and accounting solutions. He was an early advocate for cloud computing, recognizing its transformative potential to replace desktop and local network systems. In 2012, Jan joined the social networking startup MeWe as Chief Technology Officer, spearheading the development of a scalable, feature-rich platform that grew to serve nearly 20 million users. Jan envisions technology and AI as tools to unlock human creativity and potential, enabling individuals to focus on high-value work by automating repetitive tasks. He views AI as a means to augment, rather than replace, human capabilities—fostering innovation and empowering better decision-making in both business and everyday life.

Before joining Dealonomy, Jason built an impressive track record as a serial entrepreneur, achieving multi-million-dollar exits with his two most recent ventures. He has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as a top-performing executive for his exceptional adaptability to evolving markets and his ability to drive significant sales growth. Jason's keen understanding of user needs and commitment to delivering exceptional products culminated in the development of an app that successfully reached over 20 million users.

Marshall Hatfield is Dealonomy Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer: focused on telling the company’s story and growing the brand. From founding a Real Estate Marketing Agency in 2013, to house flipping & real estate investing for over a decade, to running Deal Sourcing operations for a $30m AUM Multifamily Hedge Fund, all along, Hatfield's has a proven track record building high-ROI Direct Response & Content Marketing systems (often from scratch). Since 2022, Hatfield’s focus has shifted away from Commercial Real Estate, and towards the broken and fragmented world of Main Street M&A: Buying & selling profitable, privately held companies. He got his start in the space 100% focused on the Property Management niche, which he started in as a Buyer, but quickly became an Advisory & facilitator, filling a service gap which was sorely lacking. Seeing the problems in the space firsthand, as both a user & service provider, quickly led to the birth, formation, and launch of Dealonomy as a high-tech, high-touch answer to the broken & outdated models of traditional Business Brokerage.

Jackie Ossin Hirsch is a licensed business broker and founder/owner of Crowne Atlantic Business Brokers. She has over 25 years’ experience as a business broker, and has executed over 400 transactions during her career. Jackie focuses on businesses in the $750,000 -$10MM EBIT range, mainly across the construction, manufacturing, and service sectors. Using her years of experience, she customizes a unique CIM for each business she puts on the market. Combined with her ingenuity in matching the right buyer and seller, Jackie is able to maximize the value of the transaction for both buyer and seller. Due to a commitment and dedication to her clients’ success, Jackie has won numerous business brokerage industry awards from the Business Brokers of Florida. In addition, she has been a Multi-Million Dollar producer for over two decades and has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Brokers for the State of Florida for three straight years. As a result of her business success and her intimate knowledge of the business brokerage industry, Jackie has been a frequent invited speaker at numerous national business conferences. She has had recent speaking engagements at the Business Brokers of Florida conference, the International Business Brokers Association Conference, and the SMBash Annual Conference. Jackie has also presented multiple times in the past year at the SM Bootcamp, teaching prospective buyers how to buy a business. In addition to Crowne Atlantic Business Brokerage, Jackie bootstrapped, grew, and then sold a home health company as well as founded a successful superfoods brand with customers including the Four Season’s Hotel and Disney Cruise Lines. Jackie has also invested as a limited partner directly with numerous small businesses and as part of private equity and venture capital funds. Jackie is a graduate of the University of Florida, and has studied Business at the University of Costa Rica while becoming fluent in Spanish. She has traveled to over 35 countries. Jackie is married to the love of her life, and they have one spectacular child.

Kevin Henderson is a founding partner at SMB Law Group LLP, a boutique law firm that specializes in serving small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in all aspects of buying, selling, operating, and investing. With over 13 years of corporate law experience, Kevin has a proven track record of successfully advising clients on complex M&A, venture capital, and capital markets transactions across various industries, with a focus on the emerging and highly regulated cannabis sector. As a former Wall Street lawyer, he brings a unique skill set and perspective to the SMB space, where he sees a growing demand for sophisticated and cost-effective legal services. Kevin’s mission is to help SMB owners and entrepreneurs achieve their goals and create value, while navigating the challenges and opportunities in the market. He also hosts a podcast called Mundane Millionaires, where he explores the stories and strategies of SMB owners who prioritize family, community, quality of life, and cash flows. Kevin is passionate about supporting the SMB ecosystem and giving back to the community. He serves on the board of directors for Hopes Door New Beginning Center, a non-profit organization that assists victims of domestic abuse. He is licensed to practice law in Texas, California, and New York.

Reid Tileston trains the future entrepreneurial business owners of America. As an Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University he teaches Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, invests in entrepreneurial business owners, is a board member, and is an award winning paid keynote speaker. Reid co-created the curriculum for the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition course at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, lectures at leading academic institutions such as Dartmouth, the University of Chicago and the University of California, and serves on the University of Chicago Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Advisory Committee. His expertise is derived from 16 years of successful, on the ground entrepreneurial business ownership experience; acquiring, opening, growing and selling 4 companies in addition to his academic research. Reid achieved a return multiple of invested capital (MOIC) of over 10x on his most recent acquisition and was a top performing Anytime Fitness franchisee.

Robert Sterling is a corporate-finance leader, investor, and advisor. He has served as CFO for multiple seed, series A, and series B start-ups; as a consultant, he has advised more than 60 companies on strategy and capital markets in industries as diverse as manufacturing, commodities, agriculture, energy, SaaS, fintech, consumer products, and real-estate development. Robert began his career in finance with Koch Industries and Cargill, America’s two largest private companies, where he led and supported more than $10B in completed M&A transactions, capital projects, divestitures, and capital raises. Robert has completed a BA in mathematics from the University of Washington, an MBA in finance from Pepperdine University, and executive leadership training at INSEAD. Robert served as a Korean linguist and signals intelligence analyst in the US Marine Corps and is a veteran of the Afghanistan campaign.

Trent Lee has consistently been recognized as the leading business broker in the country, holding the title for most closed transactions annually over the last six years, as acknowledged by the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA). His unparalleled record in facilitating business sales places him at the pinnacle of the industry. As a credentialed business appraiser and broker, Trent offers a rare blend of expertise that enables him to accurately assess the value of a business and secure the best possible deal for his clients. He is also the author of the Amazon Best Seller "The 6 Figure Exit Plan," which provides insightful strategies for achieving successful business exits. Trent's educational background is as impressive as his professional experience. He holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting, a Master of Finance from Harvard University, and an MBA from Texas A&M University. Beyond his formal education, Trent has personally founded, grown, and successfully exited two companies, one of which grew to over 90 employees. This firsthand experience provides him with a deep understanding of the challenges and strategies pivotal to thriving in business ownership and exit. Whether you are buying or selling a business, Trent Lee is equipped to navigate you through the complex market landscape. He is affiliated with First Choice Business Brokers and maintains active memberships with several prestigious organizations, including the International Franchise Association, Canadian Franchise Association, International Business Brokers Association, and the Institute of Business Appraisers.

Walker Deibel is a serial acquisition entrepreneur, WSJ & USA Today bestselling author, an Emmy-nominated film producer, and an award-winning M&A advisor. He is the creator of Acquisition Lab, the premier business buying accelerator for entrepreneurs. Walker 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. His book and educational company share experiences and frameworks to help entrepreneurs learn why buying an existing company is often a better route for entrepreneurs, and how to do it. Their flagship program, the Acquisition Lab, offers buy-side M&A services for first time financial buyers in a do-it-with-you service; providing world class education, coaching, tools, and a vetted community. Walker is a partner at Quiet Light where he helps online-based businesses exit. He is a Certified M&A Advisor, Certified M&A Professional, former SEC licensed stockbroker, and recipient of the Middle Market Thought Leader of the Year, awarded by the private market Alliance of M&A Advisors. He was recognized as a lower middle market thought leader by Axial, and his writing has been featured in Inc, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fast Company, & Harvard Business Review. Walker is currently the owner of the premiere aluminum railing manufacturer in Missouri and a portfolio of online-based businesses. Historically, he has owned and operated in many industries, including manufacturing, fulfillment, software, education, and eCommerce. Walker is an Emmy-nominated producer having worked on almost a dozen films with premieres at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto International Film Festival. He holds an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis where he received the Declaration of Accomplishment in Entrepreneurship from the Skandalaris Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is a Pipeline Entrepreneurs fellow, and is an adjunct professor at Olin where he launched the acquisition entrepreneurship class to the MBA program. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife and their three children.

Wendy Papasan is the co-founder and leader of several companies affiliated with real estate. She runs the Papasan Properties Group @ KW, a top 1%, full service real estate agency that helps clients with their real estate needs in Austin TX and San Antonio, TX. The team has sold more than $750 Million in Home Sales and has helped more 2,100 families. Wendy brings 30 years of marketing and strategic consulting experience, as well as decades of work in the trenches as a real estate investor. Her clients say, she and her team bring a mix of marketing savvy and shrewd negotiating skills to every home sale. Clients say Wendy and her team are professionals who help them sell their houses quickly for the best price, find them investment bargains, and do everything it takes to find their dream home. Wendy is a 6-year winner of the Platinum Top50, an elite group of real estate professionals selected for their real estate production, charitable giving, as well as giving back to their communities. Wendy's podcast, Empire Building Podcast, won the 2021 recipient of the Inman Innovator Award. Wendy is married to Jay Papasan, international speaker and #1 best-selling real estate author and Vice President at Keller Williams Int'l. They are the proud parents of two teenagers and a dog named Taco.