Main Street M&A Prep provides education, fellowship & professional services to facilitate small business acquisitions, mergers & exits.Stage Gates:• Search• Acquisition• Management• M&A Growth• Exit• Invest

LP investing in CRE, SMB & VC deals.• Venture LP: VU Venture Partners, Type One Ventures, What If Ventures, Great North Ventures, RareBreed Ventures, Back$tage Capital, CanopyBoulder Accelerator • Syndicate LP: OpenAI, Figure.ai, Touchcast, SpaceX, Orbit Fab, Varda Space Industries, Turion Space, Isaac Health, kindbody, Blackrock Neurotech, Duly Health and Care, Novameat, Integriculture, Finless Foods, NFT Pro, Odyssey, X-Therma, Wayflyer, Ellipsis Health, TRIPP, Lumen, Flower Co, FLYR, Contraline, Fintor, Qunomedical, Lora DiCarlo, Civic Eagle, Potli, Cloud Creamery• CRE LP: Commercial Investors Group• Hospitality LP: Sangha Retreat Center• SMB LP: Enduring Ventures• Franchise LP: FranShares

• Sourced FranShares

• Led investment team for Contraline deal• Sourced healthcare investment opportunities• Reviewed pitch decks, met with founders and investors, presented top investment opportunities at weekly Partner’s meetings and investment committees• Conducted quantitative and qualitative deep due diligence of market sizing, team’s ability to execute, go-to-market strategy, key risks, business model, key metrics, financial modeling, competitive landscape, customer and investor interviews, cap table and waterfall analysis, term sheets and wrote investment memos• Worked closely with the General Partners, Sky Fernandes & Andrew Zalasin, who have 35+ years of VC experience and invested in 10+ unicorns including Beyond Meat, Facebook, FLYR, Twitter, Uber, Venmo, Wayflyer

• Consulted for City of Chicago civil engineering contract to manage project schedule for asphalt road construction• Tracked material orders and project status for 800-1,000 project locations; report daily grinding and paving progress to management using MS Access database and MS Project• Coordinated with database developer to create efficient business process tracking and reporting forms• Performed quantity analysis calculations to track actual material removed or placed to ensure all material is accounted for or weighed back• Performed vendor delay analysis for truck log tickets per contractual agreement and verify via GPS

• Developed 13,200 square feet of mixed-use commercial real estate for retail, office and residential use• Obtained all required building permits and licenses from government agencies • Negotiated prices and contracts with vendors for building materials• Coordinated workflow of general contractor and sub-contractors during on-site construction • Executed lease for current tenants including 10 year lease with anchor tenant Muthoot Finance• Defined job duties and responsibilities for on-site property manager• Exited in 2018 to UAE investor

• Responsible for marketing strategy, membership retention/recruitment; increased membership each year by 3-5% since 2007 • Planned and executed three conference meetings per year within budget of $60,000 per conference including negotiating contracts for meeting space and room rate with designated hotels• Managed calendar production, distribution and sales resulting in 56,000 units sold for 2010• Updated and managed website content as needed in Microsoft Dreamweaver: www.nahma.org• Managed every aspect of the NAHMA Educational Foundation including setting up fundraising events, reviewing scholarship applications, creating each fiscal year’s operational budget, and reporting all operational activities directly to the Educational Foundation Board of Directors • Generated and analyzed reports from database as needed • Wrote company press releases and memos, designed program print collateral, and administered Communities of Quality program

• Managed and supervised project load for three designers and two programmers• Responsible for meeting assigned project deadlines on time within budget• Worked with consultant and client’s business needs and strategy to create site map and architecture for website, ecommerce or database backend solutions• Responsible for Search Engine Optimization Program• Initiated project outsourcing to India; fulfilled pilot project: www.holmlundsonsconstruction.com