 Mark Brown, CBI - President & Founder
Mr. Brown is a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) with over 28 years of business experience in a wide range of industries. Since founding NextStep in 1997, Mark has been assisting business owners in improving their businesses, preparing their businesses for sale and selling their businesses.
He developed the MyBizPath ™ System to:
- Help accountants, business brokers and other business advisors provide sound advice to their clients at an affordable cost.
- Help business owners improve the rewards they get out of their businesses.
- Improve the efficiency of the sales process in order to reduce the cost of selling the business;
He has successfully negotiated transactions from as small as $19,000 to as large as $8 million in a multitude of industries.
Prior to founding NextStep, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Aavid Thermal Technologies, where he was a driving force on the team that took the company from near bankruptcy to profitability and financial health and a successful IPO in 1996. In his four-year tenure, the market value of the company grew from near zero to $350 million.
Prior to Aavid Thermal Technologies, he was a controller for ABA Industries, an $18 million manufacturing company. He started his career as a consultant in the consulting division of Arthur Andersen, which is now Accenture.
He holds a B.A. in Accounting and an M.B.A. with a concentration in Marketing from the University of South Florida.
He is a Board Member and CPE coordinator for the Triangle Chapter of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants.
He is the President of the Cary Toastmasters Club.
He is on the Board of the Academy of Information Technology at Apex High School.
email: mark@nextstepbusiness.com
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