Ron Edmonds is president of The Principium Group, a leading merger and acquisition firm serving the Green Industry. For buyers, he assists in developing strategic plans for acquisitions, identifying targets, facilitating negotiations, structuring transactions and conducting due diligence investigations.For sellers, he advises on preparing businesses for sale and represents sellers by marketing their businesses.Ron is an expert in green industry mergers and acquisitions, having played a key role in hundreds of transactions over the past ten years.He has extensive experience in public accounting, as a chief financial officer and as a consultant. Throughout his career, he has been heavily involved in mergers and acquisitions. He has served on several non-profit boards, including a private school, a regional youth organization, two churches and a historical preservation organization.Ron has a long background in professional development and training, having taught accounting courses at the college level and continuing education courses for a variety of organizations. He has served as an adjunct professor at Christian Brothers University. He has also written on a variety of topics. He has been published in several trade publications and has written three published books.His hobbies include collecting rare books, occasional mountain backpacking and computers. He has been involved with personal computers since their very early days, playing a key role in KPMG’s early personal computer training programs. A native of Oklahoma, he worked in Oklahoma City and New York City prior to relocating to the Memphis area.Specialties: He serves green industry clients, including lawn care, landscape design/build, landscape maintenance, tree care, nurseries, garden centers, sod farms, tree farms and similar businesses, including pest control businesses, on a national basis.