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2650 Fm 407 E Ste 145/207,
Bartonville, Texas 76226
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About the Company
What is Different About ECP Ventures?
Advisors NOT Brokers – we do not broker deals or flip companies. Our role is to provide professional Mergers & Acquisitions advice and guidance to our clients so that they can make fully informed decisions that are in their best interests.
Never Persuade a Business Owner to Sell – we illuminate our clients about prevailing market conditions, valuations, and time to sell estimates so that they can determine whether this is a good time to commence an offering or not.
NO Upfront Fees or Minimum Fees - we are a 100% successful efforts firm. The only fees we charge are at closing. We only get paid when we perform by providing a buyer with an acceptable offer price AND a culture that our seller is comfortable transitioning their company and their employees to.
NO Tail – A tail is a legal obligation to pay a fee to a business broker after the broker has failed and their listing agreement has expired. Our position is that this tail concept is the most unethical thing in the business broker industry and we will not conform to industry standards.
Entire Transaction Process – we are side by side with our clients from day one through all ten stages of a successful transaction.
Digital Data Room – we use the very best digital data room and take full responsibility for facilitating the due diligence process to ensure that our buyers get everything that they need in a timely and complete manner.
Actual Business Experience – our partners have actual Fortune 500 and Big Four/Private Equity experience as CPA’s CFO’s and financial leaders. We relate extremely well with business owners since we have had real jobs where we worked as hard as they have to build value.
Definition of a Good Transaction – a good transaction is when the buyers and sellers are BOTH very happy about the transaction three years later and would do it again.
No Nonsense – we assure our buyers and our sellers that we will not waste their time(or ours)
Broker Biography
Introduction
Cliff began his financial career by graduating from a top three US accounting university (University of Northern Iowa) and passing the CPA examination during his graduation year. He went on to join a national CPA firm which commenced a rigorous 30 + year career in corporate finance and operations. Cliff’s career progressed from entry level staff accountant to EVP and Division CFO of several Fortune 500 companies. Cliff specialized in Mergers & Acquisitions, Rollups, Financial & Operational Management and Turnarounds.
He has led an IPO and numerous transactions from both the buy and sell side. His Fortune 500 experience includes healthcare, commercial construction, manufacturing, automotive and eCommerce. Cliff’s very untraditional career has included:
1. CFO of the world’s largest open heart surgery company with 50,000 open heart surgeries per year.
2. MLB and Collegiate Products Licensee and Manufacturer
3. Full NASCAR Partner
4. Co-Founder of the largest OEM auto parts eCommerce platform ever created with 167,000,000 parts applications on it which he personally sold to AutoNation
Cliff is a driven results-oriented professional who is all about maximizing value and achievements.
He is at an “elective” point in life where he can do what he wants to do instead of what he has to do. His greatest passion is helping others. He has recognized that many small and mid-sized businesses do not have an exit strategy or the ability to conduct a sales transaction where whereas business buyers are typically very transaction savvy. Cliff really enjoys providing his Fortune 500 level financial experience to business owners to balance the negotiating table and achieve maximum value for his sellers.
Cliff is a very strong Christian who operates an altruistic company called Praying As One www.prayingasone.com which distributes a very unique 12” handheld Christian cross (Hold Onto Cross).
He also founded FansAlign www.fansalign.com with a goal of aligning one million MLB fans into a unified collective voice on behalf of all MLB fans.
He is happily married and has a daughter that works for Google and a son that works for AppFolio.
Cliff’s biggest weakness is that if you get him started talking about baseball you might never get him focused again.
He is a season ticket holder of the Chicago Cubs – San Diego Padres – Texas Rangers and he wrote a baseball essay that has been placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Services Provided
Cliff uses his former Fortune 500 CFO experience to assist his clients through the entire M&A transactional process from initiation to closing. His unique skills sets provide a strong advantage for the clients that he chooses to work with. His 30 years of conducting national level negotiations provides his clients with strong leadership and focused representation.
Cliff is an exceptionally good listener and he strives to align transactional outcomes with his clients top priorities and objectives.
Numerous clients have indicated that "it became a lot easier to do our transaction once we added a Fortune 500 CFO to our team".
Areas Served
Professional Affiliations
BA - Accounting - University of Northern Iowa
CPA - license no longer maintained by choice
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