John Gustafson Email & Phone Number

Greater Omaha Area

Skyline Advisors (formerly operated as CFO Capital and Ideation Ventures), assists high growth and middle market companies with positioning for and executing strategic transactions. These services include Mergers and Acquisitions, (sell-side and buy-side), Corporate Finance (venture capital, private equity, mezzanine capital, debt, and strategic investors), and the strategic use of commercial real estate. The firm has extensive experience in manufacturing, technology, healthcare, transportation, ag and food, and renewable energy.Skyline Advisors is a division of Ideation Ventures, Inc. Services involving securities are offered through M&A Securities Group, Inc. (“MAS”). Services involving real estate brokerage are offered through Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Ambassador Real Estate ("BHHS”). Skyline, MAS, and BHHS are separate entities.

Greater Omaha Area

Licensed as a commercial real estate agent focusing on helping corporations and investors in the strategic use of real estate, including in mergers & acquisitions, portfolio creation and disposition, and sale-leasebacks.

Greater Omaha Area

Holding company that owns Skyline Advisors, as well as other private investments.Seeking to acquire a manufacturing, technology, or service-related business with at least $1 million of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and interest (EBITDA) and core management team in place.

Greater Omaha Area

Served as Managing Director of CFO System's Corporate Development practice and managing director of CFO Capital. After CFO Capital and Ideation Ventures rebranded as Skyline Advisors in September 2017, Skyline Advisors continued to assist in managing the Corporate Development practice until August 2020, and the firms continue to collaborate on joint clients.

Omaha, Nebraska

Prairie Ventures is a privately-held holding company with operating companies in publishing, tele-medicine, medical technology, business intelligence, staffing, and social networking.Portfolio companies included:* Labotix Automation - lab automation systems for clinical laboratories - acquired by Cerner Corporation in March 2013* HealthInterlink - remote patient monitoring* Rozene Development International - telehealth staffing and management services* QualityStar - third party quality assurance services for anatomical pathology* ProviderSource - tele-psych and in-home sleep studies* Organizational Intelligence - business intelligence software for healthcare organizations* WriteLife - collaborative publishingThe firm also had investments in banking, real estate, and all-natural beef.

$40 million venture capital fund focused on the Central US and investments in information technology, financial services, and business services.

$40 million venture capital fund focused on the Central US and investments in information technology, financial services, and business services.

Management of a turnaround of a venture capital portfolio acquired from a state-sponsored venture capital fund.

Mba, Management & Strategy

Bs, Business Administration (Accounting)