KEVIN SHERIDAN

Kevin Sheridan is an experienced executive with 35+ years of experience working with startup and growth companies and has managed companies through all phases of transitions including defining the business, planning, funding, growth and the eventual sale of the business. In each case the objective has been to realize the goal of turning ideas and underperforming assets into profitable businesses.

Kevin has focused on assisting the owners of MSP’s for over 10 years and has worked with them to reach new levels of profitability and value with several of his clients being acquired.

After starting his business career at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, he founded Marketing Data Systems in 1988, a database marketing services firm that he successfully sold nine years later. He next joined the executive team of a software company which they grew and sold to a private equity firm and has completed a rollup of companies in the pet products industry, successfully growing the combined companies which were then acquired by a private equity firm. He also held the position of CIO for ACTV and was involved in the company’s interactive television activities with Liberty Livewire, Turner Broadcasting and TV Land.

Kevin brings a management philosophy based upon instituting controls, forecasts and cost management while empowering staff to meet cash flow requirements and future objectives.

Additionally, Kevin believes in building and leveraging relationships to reach key market segments quickly and cost effectively.

He received his undergraduate degree from Lafayette College and his MBA from Fairleigh Dickenson University and has been involved in the growth and subsequent sale of several businesses, primarily in technology. He has held various positions in the past including CEO, CFO and COO, as well as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

BILL BLASER

Bill has been helping business owners to develop and grow their businesses and themselves for the last 15 years of his career and his current emphasis is on specialty construction and replacement businesses.  Bill’s other clients have included manufacturing, IT services, insurance agencies and digital marketing agencies.

Bill has owned multiple business  which include the formation of a partnership to acquire a $2mm specialty vehicle modification and service business which he and his partner grew to a $25mm regional leader through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. The business was sold to the industry leader at a premium to the market.

Before buying businesses, Bill started his career in technology systems and services sales and sales management  with Kodak and Gartner Group and then moved into leadership positions in smaller firms where he was instrumental in their rapid growth in volume and profits.  Bill graduated from The University of Dayton with a degree in business with concentrations in accounting and marketing.

JOHN SHERIDAN

John Sheridan is a business advisor with more than 35 years of experience as a leader, operator, and investor for both startups and established companies. He started his career in real estate development and construction management where he gained experience growing both privately-held and public companies. He has held executive leadership positions with P&L responsibilities including land acquisitions, obtaining entitlements, construction, sales and marketing and general management.

Since founding his advisory practice in 2006, John has helped founders of service and technology companies transform from entrepreneurial startups to become professionally managed, systemized, profitable mature businesses.

His work has resulted in increases in cash flow and value creation through team and leadership development, strategy development, execution improvement and financial management. John has acted as an advisor or principal on both sides of lower middle market M&A transactions and has guided his clients through their exits to both operators and private equity acquirers..

John is the creator of The 9 Systems Framework, a systematic approach to business transformation that has been taught to thousands of owners, managers and executives who want to get control of their business so it gives them the freedom and lifestyle they desire and he is the author of the bestseller “The Perfect Business”.

John is a graduate of The Carroll School of Management at Boston College and is a past President and Board Member of The Rotary Club of Trenton, New Jersey.