Ronald Schlegel

Ronald Schlegel joined Stony Hill Advisors in 2024, with over 25 years of hands-on leadership positions in both family-owned enterprises and corporate business units. Ronald holds an MBA from Villanova University, where he was honored with the prestigious Bartley Medallion award as well as a Masters of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a BS in Industrial Engineering from The College of New Jersey. Complementing his academic credentials, Ronald has received extensive formal and applied education in LEAN/Six Sigma Leadership, underpinning his expertise in enterprise transformational change. In the M&A market, Ronald provides guidance to startups, small-to-medium sized businesses, and family-owned enterprises in navigating complex challenges related to valuation, workplace culture, risk mitigation, and exit strategies. Leveraging a wealth of experience across diverse industries, Ronald has honed a strategic mindset and a data-driven approach that consistently delivers tangible results for businesses. Throughout his tenure at various levels of responsibility including CEO, COO, and VP of Operations/Engineering, Ronald played an instrumental role in propelling value creation by instituting robust business process systems and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. By crafting and implementing comprehensive Strategic Plans, he guided companies to surpass revenue goals and achieve cost targets, thus driving substantial improvements in efficiency and customer satisfaction. In addition to his corporate roles, Ronald founded two start-ups where he provides consulting services, focusing on revenue growth, profitability enhancement, and operational optimization. Ronald continues to empower organizations to achieve their ownership transitional planning initiatives, exemplifying a steadfast dedication to driving success through strategic vision and meticulous execution. Ronald provides exit planning, business valuation, and M&A advisory services for businesses located in New Jersey.

Stony Hill Advisors is a merger and acquisition advisory firm that specializes in providing intermediary services for lower middle market companies and small business entrepreneurs. We have assisted clients across a wide variety of industries throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, Connecticut and the New York metro region. We offer various professional services including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, exit value planning, business valuations, and transaction consulting. We believe the owners and acquirers of small and mid-sized businesses require the expertise and dedication of the Stony Hill team of advisors. Our role is that of a trusted advisor partnering with our clients and their other trusted advisors to provide confidential, qualitative, and quantitative guidance and deliver results. Our team of advisors have many years of successful prior corporate roles as owners, managers, and senior executives in small, medium, and large corporations. Combining these experiences with our years in advising merger and acquisitions, our years of training and experience in various professional fields, and with the uniqueness of the Stony Hill approach, is what allows us the stand out as a premier M&A advisory firm for business owners selling or buying a business.

Mark Anthony Gargano began his career in banking and capital markets, working at esteemed institutions such as Wachovia Bank, Fifth Third, and Morgan Stanley. During this time, he managed foreign exchange groups, pioneered cross-border debt products, and started commodity businesses from the ground up. He gained valuable experience in navigating mergers, management, technology, and operations, understanding the importance of considering all these disciplines as part of a comprehensive banking service. Mark established offices outside the United States, showcasing his ability to adapt and succeed in a global context. After his successful career in banking and capital markets, Mark Anthony Gargano decided to join Bannockburn Global Forex as a Managing Partner in a sales role for the Southeast region. This transition presented new challenges, as he had to engage in direct sales without an established brand, targeting small to mid-sized privately held companies. Through this experience, Mark gained an appreciation for risk tolerance, the impact of businesses on the community, and the dedication of entrepreneurs who put their time, business, and capital on the line. Mark managed the Southeast territory with diligence and perseverance, ultimately as part of a 27 Partner Group leading the privately held company to go public in 2019. Now, Mark Anthony Gargano is embarking on a new venture focusing on mergers and acquisitions advisory and management consulting. Given Mark's desire to be part of a team, and offer more services, Mark has joined Stony Hill Advisors as a Partner covering Tennessee. Stony Hill specializes in providing business development and consulting services to lower middle market companies and small business owners across an array of industries and locations. Stony Hill offers various professional services including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, capital strategies, financial restructuring, and management consulting. Mark has a Global MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and holds his CEPA designation as a Certified Exit Planning Advisor.

I provide business brokerage services to entrepreneurs and business owners as they navigate the complexities of liquidity and exit transactions, providing informed, customized guidance throughout the process.

Tatiana Tsoir, CPA, MBA, USTCP, is an award-winning accountant and business turnaround + M&A advisor with close to 20 years of experience helping visionaries build a business that changes lives including their own. Businesses hire Tatiana to uncover hidden revenue, develop resilient systems, build to be able to sell for more and pay less tax legally. Tatiana is a frequent speaker at conferences and brings fun back into building and selling businesses, is the author of "Dream Bold, Start Smart: Be Your Own Boss & Make Money Doing What You Love" and host of the video TV channel Talk to Tatiana in which she has conversations with world experts about their entrepreneurial journey. Tatiana has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, US News & Report, Business Insider, GoBankingRates, Bankrate, CBS, The List, The Daily CPA, NTD, Thrive Insider, and National Speaker Association. Tatiana offers: - Mediation and facilitation for family and partner owned businesses - Advisory to business on how to build to sell - Productizing for service businesses - Building wealth through real estate - Exit planning services Tatiana specializes in selling: - manufacturing - online, technology and HR/Recruiting companies - service businesses (engineers, architects, accounting, IT MSP, attorneys, medical practices) - tech and bio tech startups