Specialties: Business valuations, buyer/seller intermediary negotiations, deal team coordination, business owner coaching, historical financial analysis & recasting, exit planning, confidential information memorandum publishing, target prospecting & marketing, customer relationship management systems (CRM), marketing and advertising programs, copy writing & editing, outside sales, outside sales training, desktop and large format graphics production, art direction, strategic planning, project management software administration. Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Marigold Resources, a merger and acquisition consulting team. Marigold Resources is proficient at advising businesses in the lower-mid market with $5 to $25 million in annual sales. Independently owned since 2011, Marigold Resources is one of Iowa's leading M&A advisory firms.Co-Founder and President of AdMospheres Media & Marketing Company. Led dozens of creative projects from documentary films and bus wraps to trade show displays and corporate brochures to art museum and political advertising campaigns. Provide outbound sales and marketing platforms, branding, messaging and technology solutions. Co-Founder and Publisher of River Cities Reader monthly magazine in the Quad Cities. Experience in all aspects of print and digital newspaper publishing from the ground up --- writing, editing, design, graphics, production, sales, distribution, operations, etc.