Eric Kohl

Eric has more than 30 years of entrepreneurial, leadership, and operations experience. Before joining Murphy Business Sales, Eric built his career through decades of hands-on business ownership and leadership. After attending Miami University, he launched his first business, a fulfillment and distribution company, which he successfully operated for ten years before selling. Eric then joined AED Enterprises, LLC (Dewey’s Pizza), where he spent over two decades as an Owner/Operator and Regional Manager. There, he oversaw multi-unit restaurant operations, market expansion, and team development across the St. Louis, Dayton, and Columbus markets, developing deep expertise in operational efficiency, growth strategy, and financial management. Eric’s experience on both sides of the closing table allows him to truly empathize with business owners and buyers alike. He understands the challenges, rewards, and emotional aspects of entrepreneurship. His clients can expect a collaborative, integrity-driven approach, guided by honesty, discretion, and professionalism through every stage of the process from valuation to closing. Eric takes pride in helping clients maximize business value and achieve their personal and financial goals with confidence. His approach blends financial insight with real-world ownership experience, ensuring each transaction is handled with precision, integrity, and confidentiality.

After working in public accounting and the corporate world for over 30 years, I now facilitate the buying and selling of businesses, as sellers transition to the next phase of life and buyers set the strategies for growing their new business.

From a young age, David learned what it takes to own a small business; his first job was cleaning the office on weekends while his father put in hours of extra work building a successful small business. Early lessons in determination and entrepreneurial spirit have led David to join the team at Murphy Business Sales of Ohio. Along with his father and brother, the team at Murphy Business Sales of Ohio has over 30 years of experience in the successful transfer of main street and middle market businesses. Before joining Murphy, David worked in many service industry positions including GM of a franchise pizzeria, GM of full-service restaurants and leadership roles with both chains and traditional Mom and Pop locations. Working with owners for years, David understands the daily struggles and rewards that come with running a small business. He is dedicated to minimizing the struggles while maximizing the rewards for his clients during the complex process of selling their business. After graduating from Hudson High School, David studied History, English and Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University. He currently lives in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio. Industries served include: • Restaurants/Bars & Hospitality • B2B Services • Construction Trades • Manufacturing • Distribution • Retail • Nearly any Industry!

As a business owner, Bill truly understands the needs, goals, desires, and concerns of his clients as they enter the process of selling or buying a business. Bill has over 40 years of business ownership experience; concentrating in the last 30 years on the business brokerage and M&A industry first with his own brokerage boutique firm and then as a Business Intermediary and Regional Developer for Murphy Business Sales. Bill is also the former President of the Northern Ohio Business Brokers Association: NOBBA. This entrepreneurial background allows Bill to be positioned strategically to the benefit of his clients; whether they are owners looking to exit (sell) their business or buyers looking to enter business ownership. Bill’s reputation for advocacy is well documented by former and current clients. They will tell you that his attention to detail in preparing a business for sale is surpassed only by his insistence of confidentiality throughout the entire process of a business sale. Bill was originally from the east coast, then relocated in Ohio after attending Kent State University, earning a BBA in Marketing in the early 1970s. Yes, he was in attendance during the infamous shootings of 1970 and so was his soon to be bride of 50 years. Bill continues to enhance his formal education within various business settings over the years including past and current membership and affiliations in a number of organizations of which the NASD, ICBC, NOBBA, and COSE are a few.