We are a merger and acquisition advisory firm that specializes in providing intermediary services for lower middle market companies and small business entrepreneurs. We have assisted clients across a wide variety of industries throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, Connecticut, Tennessee, and the New York metro region. We are continuing to expand our geographical coverage. We offer various professional services including mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, exit value planning, business valuations, and transaction consulting and facilitation.We believe the owners and acquirers of small and mid-sized businesses require the expertise and dedication of the Stony Hill team of advisors. Our role is that of a trusted advisor partnering with our clients and their other trusted advisors to provide confidential, qualitative, and quantitative guidance and deliver results.Our team of advisors have many years of successful prior corporate roles as owners, managers, and senior executives in small, medium, and large corporations. Combining these experiences with our years in advising merger and acquisitions, our years of training and experience in various professional fields, and with the uniqueness of the Stony Hill approach, is what allows us the standout as a premier M&A advisory firm for business owners selling or buying a business.

NextStage Fractional LLC helps business owners transform their companies into profitable, growth-oriented, and sellable businesses, ensuring they are positioned for a successful exit or continued expansion. We specialize in exit planning and growth strategies, focusing on maximizing value, improving operations, and building leadership teams that drive long-term success.At NextStage, we take a hands-on approach, working closely with business owners to prepare their companies for market or guiding them through growth by acquisition. Whether the goal is to sell or scale, we provide the tools, strategies, and expertise needed to achieve extraordinary profitability and operational excellence.Our ultimate mission is to create win-win situations for business owners and buyers, with a focus on seamless transitions and sustainable growth. In addition, we are actively seeking investment opportunities in businesses that have potential for turnaround and revitalization.With a background that spans operations leadership and executive management, NextStage brings real-world experience and proven strategies to every engagement, delivering results that matter for the future of your business.

Hedgeway Group is focused on helping business owners get time back. We understand the needs that business owners have. Hedgeway Group helps small to mid-market companies with operational improvement by coming alongside the business owner and visionary so that they can be freed up to do what they do best.

• Utilized outside engineering resources to develop new products. This cut development time in half, reduced development costs, gave us access to engineering resources we did not have and brought in a new and fresh perspective.• Sourced and completed due diligence of three company acquisitions that were in markets outside of oil and gas and that used similar technology and manufacturing practices as OFITE. • Implemented dynamic digital dashboards (business intelligence) that allowed supply chain, sales and the CEO to obtain real time information on new orders, orders shipped, open purchase orders and customer purchase history and to adjust in real time if numbers were not going to hit goals• Leased excess engineering workspace to technology start-up. This brought in additional revenue and exposed the engineering team a fresh perspective on design and way of doing things.

Challenge: Demand from corporate to grow single TerraTek Laboratory to multiple facilities located through out the world. Current engineering group did not have the resources or structure to meet this demand, was not incompliance with corporate QHSE policy, had no formal cost of goods sold tracking and were unable to produce equipment that worked when deliveredAction: Developed business strategy focused on establishing engineering document control, defined process and procedures, adding additional resources, improving product design and usability, a quality process and standard, employee training and customer service support systemResults:• Brought group in compliance with Schlumberger QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and environment) standards and local OSHA (occupational safety and health administration) requirements• New internal quality system improved product quality and decreased delivery failure rate from a 90% to less than 10%• Implemented MRP (material resource planning) system to track materials, direct labor and inventory• Established document control, revision control and drawing package standards• Started the process of implementing ISO 9001 • Completed lean 5S project in manufacturing area that reduced project lead time, direct labor and value of inventory on hand• Increased revenue 700% and improved operating margin from 10% to 50%• Redesigned primary products to improve usability, reliability, reduce learning curve and consistency of data produced.

Designed and developed parachute actuators for the US Military, low flow high precision pressure and vacuum regulators for commercial industries