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With over thirty years of experience in both business ownership and the corporate world, I bring a wealth of expertise to my role as a business broker. For the past fifteen years, I have successfully managed and operated my own businesses. Before that, I spent fifteen years in the corporate world as a products and services development manager, leading teams of engineers and technicians.

My background and Masters degrees in mechanical and software engineering have equipped me with extensive knowledge of engineering and business operations. I have published numerous white papers and hold twenty-six patents, giving me a deep understanding of the intellectual property values associated with businesses.

Throughout my career, I have worked with a variety of small and large companies, including Johnson & Johnson, NASA, and renowned hospitals like Mount Sinai and the Cleveland Clinic. My experience spans disposable medical devices, manufacturing, industrial products, CNC machining, ultrasonic cleaners, and more. I am well-versed in regulatory issues, having dealt with Social Services, the FDA and other regulatory agencies.

Having developed my own businesses from scratch, I understand all phases of the product, service, and business life cycle, including research and development, operations, quality assurance, sales, and scaling. My experience also includes leases, tenant improvements, and navigating city and state regulations and property sales.

Additionally, I operate preschools, providing me with the unique ability to assist and advise other preschool business owners in scaling their operations or planning for retirement.

Peter assists Business Owners selling their Business with confidentiality and help them all the way to the end of thesale.

He has Owned, Operated, and Sold Restaurants for the past 25 years and other similar Businesses.

He is an Air Force veteran, Small Business Owner, and Graduate of STEA Culinary School & Hotel ManagementSchool of Athens.

With his vast industry experience, he will get the right price for your Business.

Paul Suh is a licensed California business broker with a CBB certification from the California Association ofBusiness Brokers with 18 plus years of business experience successfully buying and selling businesses. Paul canassist you in achieving your goals and creating a successful transaction from beginning to end, whether it is sellingor acquiring a business.

He is fluent in both English and Korean.

For a confidential chat about selling or buying a business, give him a call or fill out the following form.

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As a previous business owner, I understand first-hand the fast-paced, pressurized environment that you work in and the challenges of managing payroll, advertising, sales, operations, and competition, all on a razor-thin budget. I have over 25 years of experience in sales, support, training, business operation, and P&L management.

Prior to becoming a business broker, I worked in high-tech as a senior manager at Apple Computer, owned and operated my own business, and spent several years in advertising and sales. I have a B.A. from Santa Clara University, am a Certified Business Broker (CBB), and am an active member of the International Business Broker Association (IBBA).

As a Business Broker, I work with small business owners and entrepreneurs of all sizes with expertise in marketing and selling businesses with sales between $500K-$1M and those with sales of $2M – $10M. I love helping business owners and work diligently to accurately price, advertise, list, and sell their businesses. I keep a close pulse on market changes and constantly educate myself so that I can better serve my clients.

I live in Walnut Creek, California, and am well known in the Bay Area but also work with clients throughout the U.S. Reach out to me to schedule an initial call at calendly.com/antoinette-gonzalesnorris/.

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As an experienced and licensed California business broker, I know your business is as important to you as my business was to me. I am a past entrepreneur passionate about selling software and B2B services businesses. I work with clients and buyers across the USA.

My typical clients are owners of companies with $3m-$20m in revenue and 20-50 employees located within the USA. My extensive buyer network consists of Private Equity, Family Office, and SearchFund organizations across the USA and Canada. In addition, I reach out directly to corporate strategic buyers when appropriate.

I offer a hands-on, high-touch level of service to my business clients. My sell-side services cover the entire process of preparing your business for sale through closing. Additionally, I realize this is likely your first exit process. Therefore, I’ll work with you to understand each step of the journey.

Before starting my own California business brokerage practice, I held numerous sales and business development positions within the high technology industry. I have worked in both startups and also large corporations within the software industry. During my time in the software industry, I successfully negotiated multi-million dollar global deals with large companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.

Before becoming a licensed California business broker, I ran a commercial print brokerage business focused on business-to-business catalogs. We had contractual relationships with printers across the country and primarily functioned as their outsourced sales agents. My team and I grew this business to become the third-largest print brokerage in the country. A key reason we were successful was because of the software we developed for our internal use. After much thought, I sold this business myself in 2013 and transitioned to a business broker a few years later.

I’m also a big believer in exit planning. Knowing what comes next is key for an entrepreneur who has built a business from the ground up. For that reason, I hold a CEPA designation. I maintain a network of other advisors to help my clients plan and execute their business exit. This network includes attorneys, CPAs, and Financial Advisors.

I earned an MBA from New York University in finance and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in economics. I live on the Peninsula with my family and have been in the SF Bay area since 1996.