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Larry Huff has been with Business Acquisitions, Ltd., since May 2013 as a Merger and Acquisitions Specialist. Throughout his varied career, he has gained expertise in sales and relationship management. He is a skilled negotiator and values creating transactions that are in the best interest of all parties involved. He brings a wide array of professional business experience and expertise to Business Acquisitions, Ltd. Since 1988 he has provided consulting services to business owners in a variety of industries. Working with business owners has given him valuable experience and understanding of the challenges of business ownership. At Business Acquisitions, Ltd., Larry has represented business owners through the complex process of transitioning a business to new ownership in a wide array of industries including large construction, manufacturing, distribution and specialty contracting companies. Prior to joining Business Acquisitions, Ltd., Larry was a leading professional in the areas of business and personal planning. He has qualified for the prestigious Million Dollar Round Table numerous years throughout his professional career and has participated in countless leadership and business conferences. His many distinctions are a testimonial to the expert competence and high ethical standards that Larry demands of himself and his staff. More recently, he founded several real estate companies and ventures. He managed every aspect of real estate investing and development including building, management, demolition, and rebuilds. As a partner in Living The Dream, LLC, he owned and developed property from Gulf Shores, Alabama to Destin, Florida. Additionally, Larry developed and managed several real estate projects in Maui, Hawaii. A native of Colorado, Larry received a degree in Finance from Metropolitan State College. He is licensed with the Colorado Real Estate commission and a member of the Colorado Association of Business Intermediaries (CABI). Larry spends his leisure time with Laurie, his wife of 30 years, and their two boys, Larry III and Levi. He enjoys the outdoors, traveling, and physical fitness. He is very active in his church and broader community.

Erik Porter, has over 25 years of experience in sales and building entrepreneurial business ventures across the pharmaceutical, technology and agro ecology industries. Erik led the start-up and growth of three ventures that spanned a range of products and services involving sales, fundraising and client relationship management. Erik serves as a Business Intermediary at Business Acquisitions, Ltd. assisting businesses in transitioning ownership. Prior to Business Acquisitions, Ltd., Erik served as Chairman, Board of Advisors for Waste Farmers where he provided leadership to the management team focusing on fundraising, marketing and sales for the company. Erik was a co-founder of Data393 (now called Latiysys). Data393 was a 5,000 square foot data center when it opened in 2003 and grew to an 18,000 square foot facility generating over $14 million in annual revenues and recognized as a leader in the space. Data393 provided collocation, managed servers, managed services, storage and bandwidth to some of Denver’s top companies. The company was financed through private investors and revenues and sold to a VC firm in 2007. Erik and his partner were able to provide a return on investment of 6x to investors. Before Data393, Erik founded Colorado Computer Rental. Colorado Computer Rental provided IT technology for short or long-term use in training, conventions, trade shows, short-term projects or long term projects. At the time, the computer rental market was saturated with competitors. When Erik sold the company through Business Acquisitions, Ltd. in August of 2001, Colorado Computer Rental had become the market leader in the state and had exclusive contracts with every hotel along the front range and up the I-70 Corridor to Aspen. Colorado Computer Rental was the only provider at that time to have an exclusive provider relationship with the Colorado Convention Center and provided technology to almost every convention/event in the state. Ten years later, Colorado Computer Rental is alive and well in Denver. Business Acquisitions, Ltd. was able to find the right buyer at the right price who has continued to grow the business. Earlier in his career, Erik was with Marion Laboratories in Southern New Jersey. It is through this experience that he gained expertise in sales and relationship management.

Dennis A. Patten joined Business Acquisitions, Ltd. in May, 2014 as a Merger and Acquisition Specialist. He has more than 18 years of transactional experience in market preparation, deal structuring and negotiations, due diligence requirements management, and coordination of critical advisors to the completion of a successful transaction. Dennis has extensive involvement in business sectors including business-to-business, direct to consumer, value-added distribution, manufacturing and wholesale. His industry experience includes oilfield services, transportation and trucking, proprietary products manufacturing, IT consulting and services, housing and commercial construction services, and industry parts distribution. He has a special emphasis on the engineering/professional business services vertical. Dennis has a diverse business background that incorporates entrepreneurial, financial and marketing expertise. He started his career with KPMG Peat Marwick as a public accountant. He later became the controller for a subsidiary of the Phelps Dodge company, a Fortune 100 company, where he was responsible for all accounting facets of the oil and gas division. His direct entrepreneurial experience includes founding several Denver ventures including an oil and gas exploration and development company, which he successfully took public and an advertising company. Dennis graduated with B.S. degree in business administration/accounting from Metropolitan State College in Denver and a MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. He holds a real estate license from the states of Colorado and California. He is a “Colorado native from Wichita” and has been a Denver resident since 1957. He enjoys competing on the tennis court, hiking, traveling and spiritual enhancement in Nature and through meditation.